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CHRISTIANITY 


THE FLOWER AND FRUIT 
OF JUDAISM 

BY 

A SON OF LEVI 

(MARK JOHN LEVY) 


“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall pre¬ 
pare the way before me: And the Lord whom ye seek, 
shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of 
the covenant, whom ye delight in: Behold, he shall come 
saith the Lord of hosts. But who may abide the day of 
his coming? And who shall stand when he appeareth? for 
he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ sope: And he 
shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: And he shall 
purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, 
that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteous¬ 
ness. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be 
pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in 
former years (Malachi 3:1-4). 


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FOREWORD 


The Emperor Constantine, at the Council of Nicea (A. D. 
325), induced the Church to change the date of Easter, and 
this act disrupted the Jewish and the Christian religious cal¬ 
endars. From that date practically all Gospel light has been 
withdrawn or excluded from the Synagogue, and much typi¬ 
cal and prophetical Jewish light has been divorced from the 
Church, to the great injury of mankind. 

In this book the author seeks to give in prose and song, a 
Hebrew’s exposition of the Christian faith concisely clear in 
its ancient catholicity. 

The author is himself a Christian son of the priestly tribe 
of Israel, and has dug deeply into the spiritual mines of 
knowledge, bringing the Jewish nurture and culture of his 
youth and younger manhood to the aid of this doctrinal and 
practical summing up of his thirty years of itinerant, non¬ 
sectarian Gospel ministry amongst Jews and Gentiles. 

No loyal Jew should refuse to read this book; and every 
Christian whose faith has been shadowed by the prevailing 
infidelity can again rejoice in the sweet sunlight of Truth 
while reading this whole-souled Hebrew defense of “the faith 
which was once delivered into the saints.” 

The book is sent forth with prayer, to the glory of God 
and for the blessing of humanity. 



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CHRISTIANITY, THE FLOWER AND FRUIT 

OF JUDAISM 


Dedicated by the author to all the children of God from 
whom he has received spiritual light and temporal kindness 
during his long pilgrimage and search for the Truth. 



SONG 

(“Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all 
wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms 
and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your 
hearts t,o the Lord”—Col. 3:16). 

Child of God, my heart doth grieve 
O’er the Babel in the Church, 

Though her holy songs relieve 
Error’s pain in Doctrine-search 
When their truths unite as one 
All redeemed by God’s dear Son. 

Sects that fight and never meet 
Sing the songs their foes compose,— 

Conquered by the music sweet, 

Of the hearts their minds oppose. 

Joy and grief we tell in song 
Mostly to the Truth belong. 

Song is essence of the thought 
That the heart believes outright,— 

Seldom by false favor bought, 

Or by gift, the Truth to fight. 

Song reveals the Godward plan 
Meekly to the mind of man. 

If the prose these leaves contain 
Thy fair mind convinceth not, 

Let my heartfelt songs explain 
Truths by Churchmen long forgot, 

Since so proudly they ignored 
Jewish light in Scripture stored. 


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PREFACE 


The author was once in a home where there were two clocks, 
one striking right and going wrong, the other going right and 
striking wrong. These clocks might well illustrate Christian 
doctrine and practice to those who desire clear Gospel light; 
for correct Christian practice is impossible without correct 
doctrine; correct Christian doctrine is deplorable without 
consistent practice. 

At Toledo, Spain, there were so many clocks going wrong 
at one time, it is said, that the first clock which struck twelve 
correctly was ready to strike one before all the other clocks 
had struck twelve. In Christendom, likewise, the doctrinal 
confusion is so widespread that a religious conference might 
be held on every day throughout the year in any stated city 
and another new year would be greeted before every Christian 
sect had been given a hearing. 

At the request of friends and with the laudable desire of 
setting right some of these doctrinal clocks of Christendom, 
the author has gone aside for a time to prepare for publication 
the foundation truths of a few Bible addresses which he has 
delivered frequently in his itinerant ministry, while seeking, 
as a Christian son of Levi, to “give none offense, neither to the 
Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the Church of God,” (1 Cor. 
10.32). 

His own spirit is cheered as he sits down to write by 
opening the Bible at a confirmatory scripture: “The word 
that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Thus speaketh 
the Lord God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that 
I have spoken unto thee in a book” (Jer. 30:1, 2). In the 
next chapter we read, “Behold the days come, saith the Lord, 
that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and 
with the house of Judah” (31: 31). The word translated 
“make” reads “cut” in Hebrew, and implies the shedding of 
the blood of a spotless sin-offering, without which there is no 
possibility of communion between a holy God and a guilty 
sinner. 


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The author would not dare to send forth the message this 
book contains without the joyful assurance that his own sins, 
and his worship and service are cleansed by the precious 
blood of Jesus Christ, who by “one sacrifice for sin hath per¬ 
fected forever them that are sanctified ” (Heb. 10:12-14). 

Across the land, across the sea, 

I wing in love this message true: 

The Blood of Christ doth wash away 
My sins and cleanse my worship, too. 

It purifies my ministry 
To sinful Gentile, sinful Jew, 

And gives me joy as on I speed 
To face a sinful world in need 
Of knowledge of Salvation’s plan, 

Through Christ, the Son of God and man. 


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CONTENTS 


Chapter Page 

I The Exactness of the Word of God . 11-17 

II Hebrew Verb-Roots and the Holy Trinity . 18-24 

III Christ and the Immemorial Blood Covenant . 25-32 

IV Christian Symbolism in the Jewish Passover . 33-44 

V The Holy Spirit in Israel and in the Church . 45-55 

VI Christian Typology in the Book of Life and the 

Cherubim . 56-61 

VII The Great War and Red-Letter Days in Judah’s 

History . 62-70 

VIII The Anglo-Saxons the Lost Tent Tribes of Israel .... 71-84 

IX Christian Mistreatment of Jews and Jewish Mis- 

judgment of Christ . 85-94 

X Christendom’s Greatest Wrong Against Judah . 95-108 

Illustrative Songs and Poems 

Dedicatory Song . 6 

The Popish Spirit . 17 

Faith in Christ . 24 

Kind Faces in a Vision Rise . 30 

Christ’s Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem . 31 

Lonely in the Midst of Joy. 32 

The Jewish Sabbath of the Song . 40 

The Jewish Passover and Christ Our Passover. 42 

The Day of Atonement . 53 

Christ the King of Glory . 54 

The Blood of a Brother . 62 

Brothers, Listen to this Message . 67 

Are Britons True Hebrews. 69 

Jerusalem in Golden Light . 69 

Eleven Times Thirteen Multiplied . 78 

God of Love. 84 

The Ingrate’s Part . 87 

I Love our God! I Hate the Jews! . 90 

The King of the Jews with a Scar on each Hand .... 91 

True Zionism . 91 

All Error We Deplore . 92 

Must We Mosaic Laws Despise? . 96 

Ho! Jewish Brothers, Hearken Now!. 107 

Gems of Truth in Christian Faith and Practice .109-124 


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Christianity, the Flower and Fruit 



Chapter I 


THE EXACTNESS OF THE WORD OF GOD 


A Jewish lady once stopped the author and said, “I don’t 
understand how you can remain a Jew if you believe in 
Jesus.” The following illustration flashed into my mind, and 
answer was given: “In the United States there is a pro¬ 
gressive system of education, i. e., the common school, the 
high school and the college. When one enters the high 
school, he does not deny what was taught in the common 
school; and when one enters college, he does not deny what 
was taught in either the common or the high school. Moses 
represents the common school, the prophets the high school, 
and the New Testament the college of faith. When I 
studied the prophets I did not deny what Moses taught; and 
when I accepted the New Testament, written by loyal sons of 
Israel, I did not deny what I had learned from Moses or the 
prophets; nor did I cease to be a Jew.” The study of the Old 
Testament is as imperative to the Christian as the study of 
the New Testament is to the Jew, if one aspires to perfect 
knowledge, faith and obedience in spiritual worship and serv¬ 
ice. The Book of Psalms, with its beautiful imagery, might 
well be described as the kindergarten of faith. 

The Bereans were accounted “noble” because they “searched 

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the (Old Testament) scriptures daily” (Acts 17:11). St. 
Paul declares that “Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by 
the Word of God” (Rom. 10:17); and Samuel of old pro¬ 
claimed, “Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to 
hearken than the fat of rams” (1 Sam. 15:22). Thus it fol¬ 
lows that knowledge, faith and obedience are the three orderly 
steps, doctrinally and practically, in the onward progress of 
the victorious Christian life. 


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CHRISTIANITY, THE FLOWER AND FRUIT OF JUDAISM 


The Bible is a wonderful book, and mathematically true 
to its minutest “jot and tittle.” The Hebrews of old num¬ 
bered every letter of the Old Testament and the middle "word 
of every book; and to this day the most revered orthodox rabbi 
is not allowed to mispronounce a single letter in public wor¬ 
ship without immediate correction by the congregation. 

Absolute truth changes not from the beginning to the end 
and was symbolized in Israel by its Hebrew word (Ameth) 
which contains the first, the middle (counting double letters), 
and the last letter of the alphabet. No book but the Bible 
has this value of absolute unchanging truth; and no man 
other than the Son of David has this merit: He is “The 
Truth” (John 14:6), and the “Alpha and Omega, the begin¬ 
ning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which 
was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” (Rev. 1:8). 

Every Hebrew and Greek letter has a numerical value. 
“Truth” has the value in Hebrew of 441, which is “9” by 
addition and divisible by “9” in every combination, an arith¬ 
metical symbol discovered, too, in the Greek word, “Amen” 
or “Verily” (99). The sum total of the Hebrew Alphabet is 
4995 (5 x 999), according to Bullinger (Number in Scripture, 
p. 235). 

The rabbins taught that “9” is God’s “Signet of Truth,” 
and it is unchangeable in its rule over the ten digits (0, 1, 2, 
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), for when found in one relation of arith¬ 
metic it is found in every relation of addition, division, multi¬ 
plication and subtraction. This truth is also discovered in 
the Triune number (3); and its scriptural significance is 
trebled when we remember that 9 is the square of three and 
that the holy of holies, where the visible presence of God 
dwelt in Israel, w T as a cube. 

The ten digits added together are 45. The numerical 
value of Adam is 45 also; and this number must refer sym¬ 
bolically to Christ in His Kingly dignity as the sinless, sin- 
bearing Son of Man, and the only begotton Son of God, 
in Whom all righteous rule and authority inheres on 
earth. “Four” is the symbol of creation; “five” of grace: 
“Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ’ (John 1:17). Four 


THE EXACTNESS OF THE WORD OF GOD 


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and five are nine. Forty-five is five times nine. Changed 
around it is fifty-four, six times nine. Divide the ten digits 
by nine and the remainder added together is twenty-six the 
Hebrew numerical value of Jehovah’s name. Divide the ten 
digits backward and forward, or transpose them into a mil¬ 
lion combinations, they are unchangeably divisible by nine. 
Multiply the digits to untold millions and the rule of the “9” 
ever holds good. Likewise, the uncorrupted Word of God 
in the original languages is unchangeably true, and to refuse 
its authority as our rule of life is spiritual suicide. To avoid 
error we must compare Scripture with Scripture (1 Cor. 
2:13), and not alone with man-made commentaries. Even as 
in the full arithmetical problem we must never introduce any 
number except “9” (3 x 3) to avoid confusion. Nothing in 
this book should be accepted that will not stand this test of 
accord with Holy Writ. 

Nine is the King of the Digits, 

To typify God’s Holy Word,— 

His “Signet of Truth” to the ages 
The annals of Israel record. 

Multiply, add or divide it, 

In reading and writing and speech, 

God’s Word to the jot is unerring, 

Though critics its falsity teach. 

The Spirit of Truth is its Author! 

Messiah, the Truth, is its Light! 

And we in its armor undented 

All demons and skeptics outfight. 

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“Adam,” “hypocrite,” “to show blood,” (blush) are from 
the same Hebrew verb-root; thus the title “hypocrite” (mean 
man) is applicable to every unregenerate son of Adam, whose 
first mother Eve (Hebrew: Life) wilfully committed three sins 
by adding to, subtracting from, and altering the Word of 
God, when tempted by Satan in the form of the Serpent 
(Gen. 2:16; 3:2,3). Our mother left out the word “freely;” 
added the words “neither shall ye touch it; and a tered the 


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CHRISTIANITY, THE FLOWER AND FRUIT OF JUDAISM 


words “thou shalt surely die” to “lest ye die.” Eve repented 
of her sin and was restored in measure to Divine favor; but 
the evil effects of her fall still afflict the human race and will 
not be universally overcome until the One who bruised the 
serpent’s head is eternally crowned King of kings and Lord 
of lords. 

But what of the unrepented sins of carnal men of today 
who lightly handle or juggle with the Word of God despite 
the warnings given on its truthful pages? Surely the 
children of God should be on their watch against the wide¬ 
spread snare of the “Latter times.doctrine 

of devils,” (1 Tim. 4:1) in these days when men “will not 
endure sound doctrine.” Eve partook of “the tree of knowl¬ 
edge of good and evil” (Gen. 3:6) when she saw it was “good 
for food” (lust of the flesh) ; “pleasant to the eyes” (lust of 
the eyes) ; and “desired to make one wise” (pride of life),— 
the three great sins from which all other sins spring and 
against which we are warned in the New Testament. These 
identical temptations to sin Christ victoriously faced in His 
great conflict with the devil through “the sword of the Spirit, 
which is the word of God” (Eph. 6:17), when He thrice de¬ 
clared “It is written” (Matt. 4:4, 7, 10). 

Lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, 

And pride were in the heart 
Of Mother Eve, and still deceive 
Her sons in greater part. 

She added to, subtracted from, 

And altered God’s own Word, 

When in her happy Eden home 
With Satan she conferred. 

Now Satan sly makes critics lie, 

Who juggle with God’s truth, 

To help deceive with Mother Eve 
Man, women, maid, and youth, 

Whose pride and lust of flesh and eye 
The Cross they let not crucify. 

So, friend, beware of Satan’s snare 
And carnal critics everywhere, 

Or thou their doom in hell will share 
With all the demons of the air. 



THE EXACTNESS OF THE WORD OF GOD 


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Hell (Hebrew: Sheol) is from the verb-root, to pray, crave, 
or ardently desire. Hades, its Greek equivalent, is the nega¬ 
tive of the verb, to see. Disappointment in ardent worldly 
desire for love, wealth, fame, power, or place, gives us a 
touch of “hell on earth.” The eternal hell will consist of 
ardently desiring to see God after being cast into everlasting 
darkness (Matt. 8:12; 25:46), where the punishment will be 
associated with Gehenna (burning). 

But God is merciful (zealous in loving kindness to all who 
turn to Him in true penitence) ; for He proclaimed with His 
own voice to Moses, after Israel had turned from Him to 
worship the molten calf (Ex. 32:8) “The Lord, the Lord God, 
merciful and gracious, long suffering, and abundant in good¬ 
ness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving 
iniquity (crookedness), transgression (rebellion), and sin (to 
miss the mark), and that will by no means clear the guilty” 
(Ex. 34:6, 7). 

Scriptural light is given for guidance in Christian service 
from a study of the verb-roots associated with the clean and 
unclean beasts in Israel. The clean beasts had to “chew the 
cud and divde the hoof” (Lev. 11:1.8). From the root “chew 
the cud” we have “ruminate,” “chewed food,” mataphorically 
“to feed on God’s Word,” as proclaimed by Israel’s great 
evangelical prophet, “Ho everyone that thirsteth, come ye 
to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy and 
eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and with¬ 
out price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is 
not bread? And vour labor for that which satisfieth not? 
Hearken diligently (Hebrew: hearken, yea harken) unto me, 
and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself 
in fatness” (Isa. 55:1, 2). But we are unclean as Christians, 
even though we daily feed on the Word of God, which is 
“sweeter than honey and the honeycomb” (Ps. 19:10), unless 
we obey another interrogative injunction uttered by the great 
prophet, “Is not this the fast that I have chosen * * *? 

to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bringest the 
poor that is cast out to thy house” (Isa. 58:7), because from 
the Hebrew verb-root “divide the hoof,” we have “break 


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CHRISTIANITY, THE FLOWER AND FRUIT OF JUDAISM 


bread.” Therefore we are unclean, likewise, if we attempt 
“to break bread” spiritually without first “chewing the cud” 
of God’s Word. 

Unclean are the children of God, 

When the cud of His Word is unchewed; 

Unclean are the saints who fail to divide 
Rich portions of heavenly food. 

In spirit the saints “chew the cud” 

When the Scriptures well nourish the heart; 

The “hoof” they “divide” when others receive 
Of their fatness and sweetness a part. 

Christians have no right to accept or reject any doctrine 
until they have “ruminated” (meditated or pondered) on it. 
A Jewish brother once observed to me, “I enjoy the peaceful 
and restful atmosphere of the Christian church.” I replied, 
“The atmosphere you enjoy is no more the real peace and 
rest of Christian faith than the atmosphere of the kitchen on 
Thanksgiving Day is the real Thanksgiving dinner.” We are 
commanded “to taste and see that the Lord is good” (Ps. 
34:8). 

The most unclean beast in Ishael is the pig (Chazir: swine, 
hog), which is from the Hebrew verb-root, “to return,” as 
pigs do to their wallowing. From cognate Eastern languages 
we get from the same root “to be enclosed,” “little-eyed,” as 
pigs are from constantly looking down and being cooped up 
in a pen*. Sripture students, too, who are “enclosed” in their 
own pet doctrines and keep “returning” to them become 
“little-eyed” to the pet doctrines of other Christians, and 
are generally “hoggish” in their spiritual dispositions and 
judgments. It is an axiom of teaching that we are apt to be 
right in what we study deeply and affirm; we are apt to be 
wrong in what we do not study and deny. “Prove all things; 
hold fast to that which is good” (1 Thess. 5:21) is the scrip¬ 
tural command. 

Chazir is an Eastern word 
For hog and little eyes,— 

Related to religious men 
Whose outlook is unwise: 


THE EXACTNESS OF THE WORD OF GOD 


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So very* narrow, obstinate, 

Some Scripture students are, 

That with the pigs in Palestine 
We like them best afar. 

Sectarianism is the logical result of refusing to accept and 
declare “all the counsel of God” (Acts 20 : 27 ). 

The popish spirit errs,—presumes 
On God’s prerogatives, 

And by its creed, “Infallible,” 

Still arrogantly lives. 

Its rigid rule of iron and brass, 

Dissimulating love, 

Comes always from a throne below, 

Not from God's throne above. 

Defenders of God’s changeless Word, 

From A to Z, displease 

The Romish popes, sectarian popes, 

And popes of all degrees. 

Yet popes,—the big and little popes, 

Of churches great and small, 

Discern not in full Gospel light 
Their own prophetic fall. 

Oft little popes of little sects 
Outpope the popes of Rome, 

And prove the glad prophetic Word 
That Christ Himself must come 
To end the rule of all the popes 
And all the kings untrue, 

Ere God throughout this sin-cursed world 
Can Eden’s joy renew. 


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CHRISTIANITY, THE FLOWER AND FRUIT OF JUDAISM 


Chapter II. 

HEBREW VERB-ROOTS AND THE 
HOLY TRINITY 

Two triangles interlocking 

On King David’s crown and shield, 

God Triune o’er man tripartite, 

Truth and mercy have revealed. 

God the Father, Son and Spirit, 

On the first triangle shown, 

Shield our spirit, soul and body, 

When we live for Truth alone. 

Not on fields of open conflict 
Is the war of Zion won, 

But in battles of the conscience, 

Led by David’s greater Son. 

For His death brought life immortal, 

As Jehovah taught of old, 

In the Law, the psalms and prophets, 

And in Newer Books of gold. 

Christ, in His great intercessory prayer, besought God, the 
Father, to sanctify His disciples through the truth, and then 
declared “Thy word is truth” (John 17:17). Likewise, He 
gave the promise, “When He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He 
will guide you into all truth” (John 16:13). Sectarian truth 
may be Bible truth, but it never includes all truth. It is in¬ 
conceivable that Almighty God, in dealing with the eternal 
destiny of mankind, should be less minutely careful in His 
instructions than man himself is in the ordinary affairs of life. 
Railroad conductors have to time their watches correctly to a 
second; druggists are compelled to dispense poison to a drop; 
bank clerks must balance their books to a cent; legislative 
acts must be printed correctly to a comma; certain scales must 
be adjusted so accurately that a hair will turn the balance; 


HEBREW VERB-ROOTS AND THE HOLY TRINITY 


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and those who love the Son of David and are striving faith¬ 
fully to serve Him believe, as He declared, that “one jot or 
one tittle (the smallest Hebrew word and its smallest hook) 
shall in now T ise pass from the law till all be fulfilled” (Matt. 
5:18) ; and, in the words of Isaiah, “The grass withereth, the 
flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever” 
(Isa. 40:8). 

Nouns in the Hebrew’ are derived from verb-roots; and 
these verb-roots when they can be traced reveal the working 
of the Divine mind to the qualified Bible student when he 
studies carefully the names of men, cities, circumstances, etc., 
in the Old Testament, for everything recorded therein w’as 
written by holy men of old by “inspiration of God” (2 Tim. 
3:16). The following names, given in a free translation for 
the sake of readability, illustrate this truth: Abraham, thus 
called as “the father of a great multitude,” “crossed over from 
the east to the west side of the Euphrates, and became a 
Hebrew, in accordance with the word’s root meaning. We 
become “Hebrews” spiritually when we “cross over” from the 
devil’s to the Lord’s territory. Sarah (queen or princess), 
who was to become the mother of princes, “laughed” un¬ 
believingly when she heard that she was to have a child in 
her old age. At the birth of Isaac (laughter) she said, “God 
has made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with 
me” (Gen. 18:12; 21:6). 

When Sarah’s laugh Jehovah heard, 

He unbelief reproved; 

At Isaac’s birth the Lord her heart 
To holy laughter moved. 

Now Isaac’s sons in unbelief 
Laugh at Messiah's birth; 

But when they hail Him Saviour-King, 

They laugh w r ith Sarah’s mirth. 

Jacob (meaning “supplanter”), struggled all night with a 
man (Christ before His incarnation) at Peniel (God’s face), 
and surrendering to Him in true conversion received a new 
name, Israel (prince or ruler with God). We, too, become 


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CHRISTIANITY, THE FLOWER AND FRUIT OF JUDAISM 


Israelites spiritually when we surrender truly to God at con¬ 
version. The name Jew is from the verb-root “to praise;” 
and every one who “praises” God from the heart is a Jew 
spiritually (Rom. 2:28, 29). Jerusalem (city of peace) 
awaits in conflict the return of Messiah (Christ), “the 
anointed” as the Prince of Peace, who was born at Bethlehem 
(house of bread), and is spiritually the Bread of Life; a priest 
after the order of Melchizedek (king of righteousness). 
Moses (drawn from the water) confirmed in after life the 
Divine intervention in his miraculous preservation. Aaron 
(illuminated, enlightened) the pristly leader of God’s people 
in holy worship; Joshua (Jesus, Saviour), who led the Israel¬ 
ites over the Jordan (flowing down) into the Promised Land; 
and innumerable other names illustrate the value of a knowl¬ 
edge of Hebrew verb-roots to a correct interpretation of the 
ancient scriptures. 

The voice of God at the baptism of Jesus proclaimed, “This 
is my beloved (Hebrew: David) Son” (Matt. 3:17), to confirm 
the scripture, “I will raise up to David a righteous branch 
and this is the name whereby he shall be called, 
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS” (Yhwh Tsidkenu: 
Jer. 23:5, 6). And the two chief prophecies concerning the 
birth of Christ are most illuminating in the light of ancient 
Jewish customs and Hebrew verb-roots: “Unto us a child is 
born (circumcision) ; unto us a son is given (son of the law or 
confirmation) ; and the government shall be on his shoulder” 
(marriage, when the bridegroom unveils the bride and throws 
the veil over his shoulder as a symbol of authority: Isa: 9:5, 
6); “The Lord Himself shall give you a sign; Behold, the 
virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name 
Immanuel (God with us: Isa. 7:14). The Hebrew word here 
used for sign is Aleph, Vau (and) Tau (Greek: Alpha and 
Omega) ; and the word used for “the virgin” is Ha-Almah (to 
be concealed). This Hebrew word Ha-Almah is used only 
seven times in the Old Testament, and is not once mentioned 
in association with a married woman. It is applied to 
Rebekah previous to her marriage to Isaac (Gen. 24:43), and 
to Miriam (Ex. 2:8), the sister ofMoses, when as a young girl 


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living in her mother’s home she watched the cradle of bul¬ 
rushes. 

After Almighty God (El Shaddai) had renewed His cove¬ 
nant with Abram and revealed to Him that he would be the 
“father of many nations . . . and kings” (Gen. 17:1-8), 

his name was changed to Abraham, and Sarai, his wife’s name, 
was changed to Sarah (v. 15). The Hebrew letter “h” is 
twice used in the Name of the Lord (YHWH) and is an 
aspirate (breathing). The Hebrew word for spirit 
(RUACH) is from the verb-root “to breathe” or “air in 
motion;” consequently, it must have been the Holy Breath 
(Spirit) of the “Nourisher or Strength Giver” who enabled 
our mother Sarah in her old age, through natural generation 
by Abraham, to conceive and bear Isaac, the heir of the above 
mentioned promise. And the same Holy Spirit of God even 
in a higher degree of “favor” came upon the body of the 
Blessed Virgin Mary, and “the power of the Highest” over¬ 
shadowed (Luke 1:35) her and she conceived and became the 
mother of Jesus, the only begotten Son of God (Luke 1:26- 
38). The supernatural birth of Jesus, as the sin-offering, was 
imperatively essential to the integrity of the Holy Scriptures: 
Every son of Adam born in natural generation is a sinner, 
and needs the Sin Offering, even as King David declared, “In 
sin did my mother conceive me” (Ps. 51:5). 

The rabbis taught that it was “a life for a life,” namely, we 
forfeit our eternal life because of sin, and the Lord God 
promised that He would restore to us eternal life if we 
offered another life absolutely free from impurity, blemish and 
deformity. So, the children of God from the cradle of the 
race brought “clean” animals and birds, and placing their 
hands on the head of each innocent sacrifice penitentially con¬ 
fessed their sins, and then to acknowledge that they deserved 
death, they shed the blood of these animals and birds, exactly 
as the Lord declared to Moses, “The life of the flesh is in the 
blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an 
atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that maketh an 
atonement for your souls” (Lev. 17:11). 

But “it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats 


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could take away sins” (Heb. 10:4) and they only atoned 
(Hebrew: covered) the sins until the Spotless Son of God, 
to whom all these sacrifices pointed, shed His blood for the 
remission of the sins of Adam’s fallen race. We must believe 
that Jesus is Lord (the Self-Existent One); Jesus (Savior) 
Christ (Anointed: Phophet, Priest and King) to have in¬ 
telligent and joyful assurance of eternal salvation (Luke 2:11 ; 
Act 2:36; 16:31); “for there is none other name given under 
heaven among men whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). 

From the verb-root Lord (YHWH) “the Self-Existent 
One,” we derive the past, present and future tenses of the 
verb “to be,” who is the Eternal “I AM” (Ex. 3:14) and 
throughout the ages has progressively revealed Himself as 
the Triune God and the merciful Redeemer of mankind. 

The doctrine of the triunity of the Godhead as taught by 
the Christian Church is identical with the faith of ancient 
Israel, and this is confirmed unconsciously by orthodox Jews 
of today, who universally acknowledge belief in our Heavenly 
Father (Avinu-ba-Shomayim) ; Christ (Mesheach to come); 
and the Holy Spirit (Ruach-lia-Kodesh). The Hebrew word 
Echad (one), used in the scripture, “Hear O Israel, the Lord 
our God (Triune Elohim) is one Lord” (Deut. 6:4), and in 
other Old Testament texts always denotes duality or plurality 
in unity; Yacheed (only) expresses absolute unity in the 
Hebrew. 

Nowhere have we clearer evidence of the triunity of the 
Godhead than in the first verse of Genesis. Here we find the 
singular pronoun Bara (He created) linked with the plural 
noun Elohim (God in plural); and the grammatical sign 
Alepli, Tau (Greek: Alpha Omega), the Paschal sign in 
Israel, twice used to indicate that the Bible was written 
primarily to reveal Him who is “the first and the last, the 
beginning and ending” of all Holy Scripture. 

The same truth is presented in an *acrostic form in the 

* Acrostics: Compositions, usually rhythmical, in which certain let¬ 
ters (generally the first or last of each rhyme) taken consecutively, 
form a name, phrase, or sentence. Several instances of alphabetical 
acrostics occur in the Hebrew Bible. * * * The first verse of Psalm 



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119th Psalm, the “Golden Alphabet.’" It contains one hun¬ 
dred and seventy-six verses, divided alphabetically into 
twenty-two sections of eight verses each, commencing with 
Aleph and ending with Tau. These eight separate verses in 
each section commence in the Hebrew with the same letter, 
and the psalm viewed prophetically refers to Him who “in 
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, 
and the Word was God” (John 1:1). 

Viewed acrostically, also, the initial letters, in Hebrew, of 
the first word and the whole of the second word (Hebrew) in 
the first chapter of Genesis, each containing three identical 
letters, clearly portray the Holy Trinity; Ben (Son); Ruach 
(Spirit) ; El (God). And the three most honoured Jewish 
national symbols are pronounced exemplifications of the Holy 
Trinity, namely, (1) the two interlocking triangles on Judah’s 
flag (the Shield of David), representing Father, Son, and 
Holy Spirit, and protecting the spirit, soul and body of man; 
(2) the casing (Muzuzah) containing passage of scripture 
placed on orthodox Jewish door posts and stamped with the 
initial letter of the Hebrew word Almighty (Shin), three up¬ 
right strokes joined together; and (3) the three cakes of 
unleavened bread on the Jewish Paschal table. 

The Holy of Holies, the most sacred spot in Israel’s wor¬ 
ship, a cube; the Divine ascription, “Holy, Holy, Holy” 
•'"Isa. 6:3), acknowledged by orthodox Jews even unto this 
day to be the triplicated name of the Deity; and the Levitical 
blessing, “The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: the Lord make 
his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: the Lord 
lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace” (Num. 
6:24-26), are additional ancient testimonies that Christian 
teaching concerning the triunity of the Godhead is scriptural 
and incontrovertible. 


92 is an acrostic on the name of Moses. * * * The alphabetical 
acrostics of the Bible are confined to the Psalms, Proverbs and 
Lamentations (some incomplete). They include Psalms 9-10; 25; 
34; 37; 119; 145; Proverbs 31:10-31; Lamentations 1-4 are alpha¬ 
betical; Chapter 3 is a triple acrotsic (Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, 
page 171). 



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FAITH IN CHRIST 

Christ sheds delight around the Jewish heart 
That daily drifts in sympathies apart 
From friends long-loved and kindred ever dear, 
Because it has in simple faith drawn near 
Unto His love, which prophets long-foretold 
Enriches more than priceless mines of gold; 

For His self-sacrifice, in truth and grace. 

The crimson stains of sinfulness efface. 

He is the Source whence love’s pure fountains flow,- 
The great First Cause of all true joy below, 

And, though unseen, is ever near to bless 
All who believe in childlike artlessness: 

Lips touched by love alone can gladly tell 
Of grace and truth which in Messiah dwell! 

Faith in the Christ makes war on roots of wrong, 

As in His power our purposes grow strong; 

And sheds abroad affection’s warmest rays 
To woo the weary into restful ways. 

It prayerfully upon the sea of life 
Goes forth amid the fiercest gales of strife, 

To rescue those who sink ’neath waves of care, 

Or drift toward the vortex of despair. 

Faith purifies the motives of the mind, 

Leaves worldliness forever far behind, 

Reveals humility’s supreme repose, 

Withholds revenge when enemies oppose, 

Restores the penitent to peace and joy 
With all the patience meekness should employ, 

Gives needful strength all hardness to endure, 

Alike in sorrow and temptation’s hour, 

Bids charity a life-long course pursue 
And tinges hope with radiance ever new. 

Faith cheers the path wherein our steps are led; 
Trusts God, the Father, for our daily bread; 

Proclaims that God, the Son, redeems from sin, 
Routing the devil from the heart within; 

Believes that God, the Spirit, from above 
Has come to comfort with the light of love; 

Beholds the second coming of our Lord, 

Sinners and saints to punish or reward; 

Sees Jew and Gentile in pure worship one, 

And universal brotherhood begun. 

Oh for a perfect faith to fully know 

The grace and truth Christ Jesus can bestow! 


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Chapter III. 

CHRIST AND THE IMMEMORIAL BLOOD 

COVENANT 

On one occasion the author was conversing with a Jewish 
rabbi on the Christian faith and quoted the four verses in 
Isaiah 63:7-10, wherein the Lord, the angel of His presence 
(Christ), and the Holy Spirit are mentioned. The rabbi 
excused himself, went into an inner room, returned with a 
book containing about seventy-five pages, and said, “It re¬ 
quires this book to explain the four verses you quoted,” 
“Brother,” I replied, “that is like taking a piece of gold and 
wrapping it in a bale of linen; you lose your gold and are 
embarrassed with a superabundance of untidy linen.” Truly, 
the chief reason why our Hebrew friends fail to recognize 
Jesus as Israel’s Messiah is found in their undue exaltation of 
the Jewish commentaries above the Word of God, and their 
failure to study the New Testament. Orthodox rabbis declare 
“the Word of God is like water; the Mishna is like wine; 
and the Gammara is like spiced wine.” The Mishna and 
Gammara together make the Talmud. 

Christendom, too, puts far too often the words of men 
above the Word of God and does not clearly recognize that 
Moses is the common school, the prophets the high school, and 
the New Testament the college of Christian faith, and the 
failure of theologians to measure their doctrines by the yard 
stick of Israel’s God-given national customs is responsible 
for much of the sectarian confusion in the Church. Christ 
referred to the Old Testament when He said, “Search the 
Scriptures” (John 5:39), and He declared, “If they hear not 
Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, 
though one rose from the dead” (Luke 16:31). When He 
met the doubting disciples on the way to Emmaus, after His 
resurrection, He said, “O fools, and slow of heart to believe 
all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have 


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suffered these tilings, and to enter into His glory? And be¬ 
ginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto 
them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself 
(Luke 24:25-27). 

After the fall of Adam God gave the promise that “the 
seed of the woman should bruise the serpent’s head’’ (Gen. 
3.115). We trace this seed through the line of Seth, Shem, 
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, David and, in unbroken 
prophetic descent, to the Blessed Virgin Mary (Miriam), to 
whom Gabriel, one of the guardian angels of Israel, whose 
name is mentioned even now in Judah’s nightly prayers, an¬ 
nounced “Thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a 
son, and shall call his name Jesus (Joshua). He shall be 
great and shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the 
Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: 
and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever: and 
of his kingdom there shall be no end’’ (Luke 1:31-33). 

The place of His birth was predicted: “But thou, Beth¬ 
lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands 
of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is 
to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of 
old, from everlasting (Micah 5:2); the time of His birth 
and death foretold: “Know therefore and understand, that 
from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to 
build Jerusalem, unto the Messiah the Prince, shall be seven 
weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be 
built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And 
after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut 
off, but not for himself and the people of the prince that shall 
come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end 
thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war 
desolations are determined” (Dan. 9:25, 26). Several ref¬ 
erences to his crucifixion are made in Psalm twenty-two; His 
incarnation is mentioned in Psa. 2:7, 12; Jer. 23:5, 6; 
prophecies of His resurrection are given in Psa. 16:10; Job 
19:25; and practically every incident in his life is predicted 
in broad outline in the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah: 


CHRIST AND THE IMMEMORIAL BLOOD COVENANT 


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“Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of 
the Lord revealed? 

“For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and 
as a root out of a dry ground; he hath no form nor comeliness; 
and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should 
desire him. 

“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and 
acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from 
him, he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 

“Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: 
yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 

“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised 
for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon 
him; and with his stripes we are healed. 

“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every 
one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity 
of us all. 

“He was oppressed,^ and he Was afflicted, yet he opened not 
his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a 
sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his 
mouth. 

“He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who 
shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the 
land of the living: for the transgression of my people was 
he stricken. 

“And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich 
in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was 
any deceit in his mouth. 

“Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to 
grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he 
shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure 
of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 

“He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be 
satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify 
many; for he shall bear*their iniquities. 

“Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and 
he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath 
poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with 


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the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made 
intercession for the transgressors.” 

Our Jewish friends unfortunately do not read the New 
Testament or study the prophecies in the Old Testament con¬ 
cerning the first coming of Christ, as the suffering Messiah. 
They center their hopes on the predictions referring to His 
appearing as the trimphant King of Israel. Some of the most 
orthodox Jews, impressed by the fulfillment of prophecy by 
Jesus Christ, but not willing to acknowledge His miraculous 
birth, declare that He must be “Messiah ben Joseph” whom 
God has raised up to save the Gentiles; and that Messiah ben 
David, who will save Israel, has yet to appear. An unbiased 
study of the solemn question clearly proves that there are two 
distinct lines of prophecy in the Old Testament referring to 
two separate appearings on earth of the one true Messiah, 
who had first to come in humility and ride through Jerusalm 
on an ass, previous to His death (Zech. 9:9) for the salvation 
of all men, and then return on the “White Horse” of victory 
to take His seat on the throne of His father David at 
Jerusalem to reign throughout the glorious millennial age as 
the King of kings and the Lord of lords” (Rev. 19:11-16). 
If our orthodox Jewish people would only overcome their 
superstitious belief that it is a sacrilegious act to read the 
New Testament, it would be comparatively easy to prove to 
them that its teaching is in exact accord with their own scrip¬ 
tures conerning the coming of Messiah and God’s faithfulness 
to the ancient covenants. 

Every agreement among the ancients had the binding force 
of an oath, and it was considered by them a sacrilegious act 
to break a covenant, justifying the death penalty and the for¬ 
feiture of all earthly possessions. The Lord of old said of 
Israel “Surely they are my people, children that will not lie” 
(Isa. 63:9). Lying is the most common of the Jewish vices 
today, and it is but little the less common among the Gentiles 
in its various ramifications. What would happen in Christen¬ 
dom, if the same swift punishment that overtook Ananias 
and Sapphira for lying were meted out to Church members 
now ? 


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A lie a Christian labels “white,” 

God’s loyal sons confess, 

Is blacker than the blackest lie 
Of men of worldliness. 

Yet souls immersed in blackest lies 
Than snow may whiter be, 

If they will bathe in Christ’s pure blood 
And walk in liberty. 

The scriptures declare that Jehovah made various cove¬ 
nants with individuals, families and nations, some condi¬ 
tional, others unconditional. Signs were given to indicate 
the perpetuity of the covenants, and our hearts are gladdened 
even until today by the rainbow, the token of God’s faithful¬ 
ness to the Noahic covenant that the waters shall no more 
become a flood to destroy all flesh. The Abrahamic covenant, 
too, is an unconditional one, made with an oath to indicate a 
long delay in fulfillment, and the Hebraic sign of circumci¬ 
sion is a constant reminder to Israelites that the Lord will 
not fail to give them the Promised Land, from the Nile to the 
Euphrates, at His appointed time. 

But there is one covenant that transcends everv other in 

* 

sacredness and binding force, even that of the milk covenant 
which binds children of a common parentage to one another, 
namely, the blood covenant, whose immemorial record is still 
attested to by savage tribes in Australia and Africa, and 
confirmed perpetually by the Jews and the Japhetic nations 
of Asia and Europe. It is common knowledge in missionary 
circles that Stanley found it impossible to advance success¬ 
fully in his search for Livingston until he had signed the 
blood covenant with certain powerful African kings that 
mutually obligated the contracting parties to place all their 
possessions, even life itself, at the service of the other if 
circumstances required. In its purely human aspect the 
covenant made by Jonathan with David reached the acme of 
devotion to love and duty (I Sam. 18:1-7). 

Jehovah declared that He would “make a new covenant 
with the house of Israel and the house of Judah” (Jer. 
31:31; Heb. 8:8). The word translated “make” reads “cut” 


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in the Hebrew and confirms the ancient method of entering 
into a covenant with the Almighty, namely, by the shedding of 
blood, without which there is no forgiveness of sin and, there¬ 
fore, no possibility of communion between a holy God and a 
sinful man. Israel’s blessings under the Mosaic covenant 
were temporal, primarily, namely, wells our fathers had not 
digged, houses they had not builded, olive trees they had not 
planted (Deut. 6:11). Under the new covenant Christ in His 
own blood purchased for us an eternal inheritance and pro¬ 
vided for us unspeakable spiritual blessings (Heb. 9:11-15). 
Under this covenant He puts all His powers and possessions 
at our disposal; but our lack of knowledge, unbelief and dis¬ 
obedience limit the blessings He is willing to bestow on His 
blood-brothers, even in earthly life. Every Christian, too, 
is bound in duty to hold his life and possessions at the serv¬ 
ice of every other Christian who is striving to be loyal to the 
obligations of the eternal blood covenant: “Hereby perceive 
we the love of God, because He laid down His life 
for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the 
brethren. But whosoever has this world’s goods and seeth 
his brother have need and sliutteth up his bowels of compas¬ 
sion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?” (I John 
3:16, 17). 

The brotherhood tie is strong in Jewry, and at no season is 
the joy of national fellowship in stronger evidence than at 
the Passover feast, when the father is expected to stand on 
the steps of his home and cry aloud, “If anyone be hungry 
let him enter and partake of the bread of affliction, which our 
fathers ate in Egypt.” Hospitality abounds in orthodox 
Jewry on the Sabbath and festal days; and, in this virtue, 
the average Christian has much to learn of the orthodox Jew, 
even though the exception proves that no class of men is so 
loving, gentle, self-sacrificing and unstintinglv kind as true 
Christians of every nationality. 

Kind faces in a vision rise, 

Gentile and Jewish saints I see, 

Who meet in love and fraternize 

Beneath the Branch of David’s Tree. 


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In peace the Gentile and the Jew 
Assemble in a happy throng, 

Where faces beam with friendship true, 
And goodwill is the only song. 

And as they sing the winsome lay 

Old walls of hatred crumble down, 
And prejudices melt away 

Beneath the Branch of Great Renown. 

And sweetest buds of purest love 
Bloom forth upon the face of all, 

While from their lips and eyes above 
The fragrant leaves of kindness fall. 


CHRIST'S TRIUMPHANT ENTRANCE INTO 

JERUSALEM 

“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter 
of Jerusalem; behold, thy king cometh unto thee; He is 
just, having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and 
upon a colt the foal of an ass” (Zee. 9:9). 

(After a celebrated Palm Sunday picture ) 

Ho ! beauty of beauties ! Lo ! children palm waving 
And singing hosannah to David's great Son, 

Whilst strewing the roadway with roses of Sharon 
In innocent love which Messiah has won; 

And the joys of His Kingdom the children unfold 
As they march through the streets of Jerusalem old. 

Majestic and noble, Christ rideth in triumph, 

His right hand uplifted to bless and retain 
Their jubilant love,—whilst His pallor denoteth 

He sees on yon mountain the Cross and its pain. 

But the joys of His Kingdom Judeans behold 
As they stand on the streets of Jerusalem old. 

Fair Martha and Mary, true daughters of Zion, 

Rejoice in the scene Israel’s high priest beside, 

And John gently leadeth the ass which Messiah 
In Moses-like meekness electeth to ride; 

And the joys of His Kingdom the Levites unfold 
As they march through the streets of Jerusalem old. 


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Bold Peter, gray-headed, is nigh to the Master, 

And Grecians and Romans their homage proclaim, 
Whilst a suffering child, held aloft by its father, 

Appealeth for healing with faith in His Name: 

So the joys of His Kingdom the Gentiles behold 
As they stand on the streets of Jerusalem old. 

Three doves, as a symbol of Trinity, flying 

Above the gay welcome of honor and mirth, 
Foreshadow the worship when Christ in His glory 
Returns as the Lord of all lords to the earth. 

And the joys of His Kingdom the world will behold 
When He rides His “White Horse” through Jerusalem old. 


LONELY IN THE MIDST OF JOY. 

Lonely in the midst of joy,— 

Lonely, yes! Ah lonely! 

Birds have mates in nest and tree, 
Happy with one only. 

Sweetly sing, true mate to mate, 

On this Easter morning: 

Home, sweet home, awakes to life 
In its spring adorning! 

When on earth the Son of Man 
Lonely was: Ah lonely! 

But to strangers He was kind, 

Not to kindred only! 

When ye sing on holy morns 
Of the home in glory, 

Christian, sometimes resurrect 
This true Easter story: 

Lonely in the midst of joy,— 

Lonely, yes! Ah lonely! 

Jesus was to strangers kind, 

Not to kindred only! 


Chapter IV. 


CHRISTIAN SYMBOLISM IN THE JEWISH 

PASSOVER 

The annual celebration of the Passover, or, more correctly 
today, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, keeps alive in Jewry 
the memory of the immemorial Blood Covenant, even though 
no Paschal lamb has been slain by our people since the de¬ 
struction of the Temple by Titus; and the universal knowledge 
of this Covenant is supplemented by one word common to all 
nations, “Amen.” Orthodox Jews make an acrostic of this 
Hebrew word and repeat it when they read the passage of 
scripture most sacred to them, (Deut. 6:4-12): El (God), 
Melee (King), Naamon (Faithful). And the One who by His 
holy life and sacrificial death established the eternal Blood 
Covenant between our Triune God and man, is Himself God 
Incarnate, the Faithful King, our true Paschal Lamb, the 
Eternal “Amen” (Rev. 3:14). 

The sons of the patriarchs had forfeited their Sabbath rest 
and were slaves in Egypt. Before redemption the sacrificial 
blood must be offered, and for four days the Paschal lamb 
was in each home, typical of the four thousand years from 
creation that Christ was in His Father’s home before His 
incarnation. An Israelitish legend declares that in one home 
in Egypt the eldest child was ill and enquired whether the 
lamb had been slain and the blood sprinkled. Affirmative 
replies were given; but the child was anxious and asked to see 
the blood. The father took the child in his arms, went out¬ 
side the door and discovered no blood thereon. The duty had 
been neglected by the one to whom he had unwisely assigned 
it; and he himself was responsible for the death-peril of his 
firstborn. The Apostle probably refers to this circumstance 
when he asks, “How shall we escape if we neglect so great 
salvation” (Heb. 2:3). The meatless shank bone of a lamb 
seen today on Jewish Paschal tables is an object lesson of 


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Judah’s spiritual poverty; it points nevertheless to the uni¬ 
versal Paschal Lamb whose precious blood gives us the as¬ 
surance of eternal salvation. 

The search for leaven in orthodox Jewish homes is most 
minute by housewives and maids; but the father is expected 
to make a final search with a candle and to pronounce a curse 
on any portion overlooked, and thus make it “null and void.” 
“Leaven” is an acknowledged rabbinic type of sin; and to 
enforce the need of a rigid self-examination, the Lord 
declared that He would “search Jerusalem with candles” 
(Zeph. 1:12); and He gives us the blessed assurance that in 
the Jerusalem Above we shall need no “candle or light of the 
sun” (Rev. 22:5). Apostolic antitypical teaching proclaims 
that “Christ our passover is sacrificed for us; therefore let us 
keep the feast, not with the old leaven, neither with the leaven 
of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of 
sincerity and truth” (1 Cor. 5:7, 8). The white-linen setting 
of the feast is typical of righteousness, and the craving of 
honest-hearted worshippers for absolute! purity. On the 
weekly Sabbath and on every festal day in loyal homes of 
orthodox Jewry, a white linen table cloth replaces the or¬ 
dinary one and remains on the table until the conclusion of the 
sacred season. This, too, is New Testament teaching (Rev. 
19:18), as an emblem of righteousness. 

The hyssop (parsley), the most humble of all the plants in 
Israel (1 King 4:33), which was used to sprinkle the blood on 
the doorposts in Egypt, typifies meekness, and reminds us of 
the words of Christ, “Except ye be converted and become as 
little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven” 
(Matt. 18:3). 

Salt and water on the table probably represent tears shed, 
first by the Israelites and later by the Egyptians before the 
Exodus, and aptly prefigure the eternal “wailing and gnashing 
of teeth” (Matt 13:42) by all who reject God’s mercy on 
earth. Horse-radish typifies bitter bondage and is eaten an¬ 
nually because “it is the duty of every Israelite to feel as 
though he had been personally in Egypt.” It is a beneficial 


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reminder, too, to Christians of past remorseful servitude to 
sin and Satan of their forefathers or themselves. 

Almonds, mixed with dates and apples, recall the “bricks 
made without straw” in Egypt, and typify hope sustained 
under most adverse circumstances, a conspicuous Jewish 
characteristic, and a cardinal virtue of true Christians; and, 
as the fruit of the first tree that blossoms in the Palestinian 
springtime, the almonds point to resurrection. 

“Washing of hands” at the commencement of the feast is a 
symbol to the Christian of the purifying influence of Bible 
study, a truth not valued in Jewry today, because the rabbis 
have made the Word of God of none effect through their vain 
traditions, as Christ declared (Mark 7:13). An egg rep¬ 
resents the ancient daily offerings. 

Christians often misunderstand New Testament references 
to the feast, not knowing that the Jewish Passover is divided 
into three parts, i. e., the reading of the story before the 
supper, the supper itself, and the grace after supper. At 
every table a vacant seat and a cup of wine are left for 
Elijah (Mai. 4:5, 6), and the youngest boy opens the door 
in the hope that he will appear to announce Messiah’s com¬ 
ing. This seat Christ probably took when He instituted “The 
Lord’s Supper,” at the saying of grace after eating the 
Paschal lamb. 

On the table there are three thick cakes of unleavened 
bread,—some say they represent Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 
or Jehovah, the Priest, and the people. Hebrew Christians 
believe they represent the Holy Trinity,—Father, Son, and 
Holy Spirit, because the middle cake is broken in two at the 
commencement of the feast, then secreted between the pillows 
or in the pillow case, and partaken of after supper by all 
present. It was this piece of unleavened bread which Christ 
took when He said, “This is my body which is given for you,” 
(Luke 22:19) and truly it represents His body, broken on the 
Cross, then hidden in the clean tomb, and resurrected later 
for us as “The Bread of Life.” 

At the ancient Paschal supper a small portion of the lamb 
was the last morsel of food eaten, known as the Afikomen 


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(after meal). Today the last morsel eaten by the Jews is 
this very portion of unleavened bread, referred to above, 
whieh Christ took when He instructed His disciples, “This 
do in rememberance of Me.” Many orthodox Jews account 
the “Afikomen” a sustainer of life and a protection against 
the “evil eye,” and therefore carry around a part throughout 
the year in their player scarfs (Jewish Enc., Vol. I, page 
224). The cup of wine beside the vacant seat represents the 
cup which Christ took when He said, “Drink ye all of it: 
for this is My blood of the New Testament, which is shed 
for many for the remission of sins” (Matt. 26:27, 28). 
Judah at the feast confirms unknowingly all that the Chris¬ 
tians teach at its anti-typical fulfillment. 

The good child asks the question at the feast, “Why do we 
do these things?” (Ex. 12.26), and receives answer, “Because 
of what the Lord did for us when He brought us forth with a 
mighty hand and outstretched arm from the house of bond¬ 
age.” The wicked child asks, “why do you do these things?” 
and receives answer, “Because of what the Lord did for me— 
for me and not for him; for he would not have been judged 
worthy of redemption from Egypt.” All present are supposed 
to say, “This year we take it here, but next year we hope to 
partake of it in the land of Palestine,” an insincere expres¬ 
sion by the vast majority of Jews in western lands, even like 
to the insincerity of myriads of Christians when at the Lord’s 
Supper they “show forth His death until His Coming again,” 
and have no desire for His speedy Advent. The Hallel 
(Psalms 113-118) and the “Great Hallel” (Psalm 136) are 
read, and the “Seder” Service ends in Jewry with the singing 
of symbol songs, the favorite in the form of a “House that 
Jack Built” nursery rhyme, the last clause reading as fol¬ 
lows: “Then came the Holy One—blessed be He—and 

slaughtered the Angel of Death, who slaughtered the butcher, 
who slaughtered the ox, who drank up the water, which 
quenched the fire, that burnt the stick, which beat the dog, that 
bit the cat, that ate the kid, which my father bought for two 
zuzim. One only kid, one only kid!” 

The song quoted from is Judah’s endorsement, in 


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veiled language, of Daniel’s prophetic interpretation of 
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream (Dan. 2:36-45) although its full, 
clear application is not understood by the most pious and 
learned Jews who reject Christ. The following is their in¬ 
terpretation: Our Father in Heaven bought the Kid Israel 
with the blood of circumcision and the blood of the Passover 
(or through Moses and Aaron). The Kid was swallowed by 
the Cat Egypt. Egypt was conquered by Babylon (the Dog) ; 
both (Egypt and Babylon) by the Medes and Persians (the 
Stick); these by the fiery Alexander; Alexander’s empire by 
Rome, which, like water, overspread the whole world; Rome, 
as mistress of Palestine, was suppressed by the Ox, the 
Saracens. Possibly the Butcher may stand for the Crusaders, 
and the Angel of Death for the Turks, now ruling in Pales¬ 
tine, and, finally, the Most Holy for the principle of Eternal 
Justice, to vindicate Israel, the only Kid of the allegory.” 
(From two authorities based on older records). 

The Paschal lamb was chosen for examination in Israel, 
“a lamb for an house,” on the tenth of Nisan, kept until the 
fourteenth, and killed in the evening. In exact fulfillment 
of the type, Christ entered Jerusalem trimphantly on Sunday, 
the tenth of Nisan, as was prophesied by Zechariah, “Rejoice 
greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: 
behold, thy King cometh unto thee: He is just, and having 
salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the 
foal of an ass” (Zech. 9:9). For four days, from Sunday 
till *Thursday the fourteenth of Nisan (Ex. 12.3-6), when 


*Is it not against Scripture, reason and arithmetic to insist that 
Christ was crucified on Friday? He entered Jerusalem, on Sunday, 
Nisan the 10th (Monday the 11th, Tuesday the 12th), and celebrated 
the Paschal feast after sunset of Wednesday, the 13th, the beginning 
of Thursday, the 14th, and He was crucified on the same Thursday, 
the 14th of Nisan, the day the Paschal lambs were annually killed 
in Israel. We must remember distinctly that the Jewish day begins 
and ends at sunset, and that the Paschal lambs, although they were 
slain on the 14th of Nisan, were not eaten until after sunset of the 
15th. The 'preparation for the Feast now, as then, is on the 14th, 
but the festal celebration does not commence until after the sunset 
that begins the 15th, as can be proved by any present-day Jewish 



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He ate the Passover after Sunset, and was crucified before 
the Sunset which began the next day, the fifteenth of Nisan, 
Jesus, our Eternal Paschal Lamb, was in Jerusalem for ex¬ 
amination, and right meekly did He submit to and pass every 
test: The Jewish populace, to whom He was well known, 
first acclaim Him with joy, crying, “Hosanna to the Son of 
David: Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord: 
Hosanna in the highest’' (Matt. 21:9). His Jewish apostles, 
who had been His constant companions for three years, un¬ 
questionably acknowledged Him as Lord (Matt. 26:22), at 
the Last Supper after He had declared that one would betray 
Him. Judas himself, after the betrayal, said, “I have sinned 
in that I have betrayed the innocent blood” (Matt. 27:4). 
Pilate’s wife sent to him a message, saying, “Have thou 
nothing to do with that just man; for I have suffered many 
things this day in a dream because of Him” (Matt. 27:19); 
Pilate, after he had cowardly delivered Jesus to His enemies, 
declared, “I am innocent of the blood of this just person” 
(Matt. 27:24); and the Centurion, and other Gentiles at the 
Cross, after they had observed His Lamb-like attitude to His 
enemies, and the miracles wrought after His crucifixion, 
greatly fearing, said, “Truly this was the Son of God” 
(Matt. 27:54). 

But the supreme test had yet to come: Friends and enemies 
had unitedly declared that His outward life was free from 

calendar. Acceptance of this explanation harmonizes Scripture, and 
proves arithmetically that Christ was three days and three nights 
in the grave, namely, part of a day (Thursday); night and day 
(Friday) ; night and day (Saturday) ; and part of a night (Sunday). 
According to Jewish reckoning, a part of anything represents the 
whole. In any case, the 14th of Nisan would not fall on Friday in 
successive years. If lunar time reckoning were kept in the Church 
now, as it was until the Council of Nicea (A. D. 325), when the date 
of Easter was changed, the religious festivals of Jews and Christians 
would continue to coincide as to days and dates. The “Sabbath” 
referred to (Luke 23:56) is evidently the first day of the feast of 
unleavened bread, whereon the Israelites were commanded to “do 
no servile work” (Lev. 23:6,7). Every “rest” day is a “Sabbath” 
in Israel, whether it be spiritual or physical; the words are from 
the same Hebrew verb-root. 



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blemish; no one but Almighty God could pronounce Him, as 
the Son of David, free from inward taint of sin. This glori¬ 
ous pronouncement was made three days later, on the anni¬ 
versary of the day when Noah’s ark rested on Mt. Ararat 
(Gen. 8:4) and on the anniversary of Israel’s “Sabbath of 
the Song” (Ex. 15:1-21), when “the angel of the Lord” an¬ 
nounced to the women at the tomb, “He is risen from the 
dead” (Matt. 28:7), in fulfillment of the best known Old 
Testament type of resurrection, “As Jonah was three days 
and three nights in the whale’s belly, so shall the Son of man 
be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” 
(Matt. 12:40). 

Other types of resurrection are not infrequent in Scripture: 
“Jeremiah 4:23, 26, Isaiah 24:1, and Isaiah 45:18, clearly 
indicate that the earth had undergone a cataclysmic change as 
the result of a Divine judgment” (Scofield). At the Word of 
God (Gen. 1:1-12) it again revolved in order, and arose as 
Eden (delight), adorned with verdure, fruit and flower, 
vocal with the song of birds, its waters swarming with fish, 
and the land a peaceful possession of animals, over whom man 
reigned supreme in innocency and purity. After the Adamic 
fall humanity was plunged into wickedness and warfare; 
animal tameness was turned to ferocity; thorns and thistles 
disfigured the earth; and the elements of nature, sometimes 
under the control of fallen angels, were used by the Divine 
Creator for the discipline and punishment of men. 

After the flood the earth arose again from the waters 
(Gen. 8:4), and the Almighty made a covenant of blessing 
with our father Noah. The resurrection type under the 
Abrahamic covenant is associated with the offering up of Isaac, 
whose father “accounted that God was able to raise him up 
again, even from the dead; from whence he also received 
him in a figure” (Heb. 11:19). Under the Mosaic covenant 
several additional types are given: Israel passing through 
the cloud of the Red Sea (1 Cor. 10:1,2); the letting free of 
the living bird dipped in the blood of the bird that was killed 
(Lev. 14:4-7); and the offering of the first fruits of the 
several Palestinian harvests (Lev. 23:10, 17, 39), all prefigure 


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in resurrection type the One “Who was delivered for our 
offenses and raised again for our justification” (Rom. 4:25). 
For, as St. Paul wrote, “If Christ be not risen then is our 
preaching vain, and your faith is also vain: But now is 
Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of 
them that slept” (1 Cor. 15:14, 20). His resurrection was 
as imperative as was His crucifixion; and no penitent son of 
Israel, who acknowledges the necessity of His sacrificial 
death, is staggered by the supreme miracle, which gives the 
hope of a joyful resurrection to Jews and Gentiles who in 
faith and meekness believe this blessed truth. 

In the year 1917, solar and lunar time coincided,—the 
first day of the Jewish Passover fell on Good Friday, the 14th 
of Nisan, and Easter Day was the anniversary of Israel’s 
crossing the Red Sea; and on this day the Song (Ex. 15:1-21) 
is one of the appointed scripture lessons in the Protestant 
Episcopal Church. 

On that particular day the author had the pleasure of 
passing the evening in a Jewish home and of explaining to the 
family and guests of his host the close relation of Easter Day 
to the Jewish “Sabbath of the Song.” The next day he wrote 
the following poem to a child of the family to keep green the 
memory of a happy experience: 

Dear child, the Day on which we met 
Is the most joyous of the year,— 

The self-same Day that Moses led 
Our fathers from Egyptian fear 
Dryshod across the Red Sea bed, 

While Mirian and her maidens danced 
And beat their timbrels loud and long, 

As backward they at Pharaoh glanced 
On Israel’s “Sabbath of the Song.” 

A thousand years and more had passed, 

And Satan in Judea reigned,— 

In bondage holding Judah fast 

And binding her with Roman chains. 

The taxing might of Caesar’s land 
Had brought Judea very low; 

But vain Tradition’s blacker hand 

Dealt Israel a more deadly blow,— 


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By adding burdens to the Law 

Till all prophetic light was dim, 

And holy men in Error’s war 

Outpoured their grief in prayer and hymn. 
They prayed that Rome’s oppressive yoke 
Might from their native land be raised, 

But more that vile Deception’s cloak 

Should not be worn where God was praised. 
Then from, the wilderness a Voice 

Bade mankind flee the wrath to come, 

Which made the pious Jews rejoice 

As echoed from our Father’s home. 

The Voice then told how God's dear Son, 

Born of King David’s royal line, 

Had His redemptive work begun 

And would as King-Messiah shine. 

The light of God was on his face, 

His look was like the peace of heaven, 

His life was full of truth and grace, 

And God-like power to Him was given. 

The poor He loved; the sick, the blind, 

He healed with His pure touch and word; 
And to the sinful He was kind 

When true Contrition’s sigh was heard. 

The children He with tender care 

Attracted to His arms and knee, 

Comparing them to heaven fair 
In their unconscious purity. 

The wicked priests opposed His course; 

Self-righteous men misunderstood, 

Because He used no human force 
To make His own disciples good. 

Within their ranks was one most vile 
Who kept the money-bag for gain, 

And sold Him with a kiss of guile 

Ere He on Calvary’s Cross was slain. 

As God’s true Paschal Lamb He died 
That we poor sinners might go free, 

And three days later hell defied 

And conquered to the last degree. 

Dear child, we met| upon the Day 

He rose triumphant from the grave 
And scattered Death’s dark cloud away 
To prove He lives our souls to save. 


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For Moses conquered Pharaoh’s host 

And led our fathers through the sea; 

But He the Victor on Death’s coast 
From sin and Satan sets us free. 

And so thy heart in joy uplift 

And hail Him as Messiah true; 

Then tell thy friends of God’s great Gift, 

Who lived and died A LOYAL JEW, 

And in New York thou wilt prolong 
The Jewish Sabbath of the Song. 


THE JEWISH PASSOVER AND 
CHRIST OUR PASSOVER 

(Please read the song first without its Christian application.) 

All leaven from the home is cast, 

The Paschal lamps are lit, 

And children in a festive mood 
Around the table sit; 

For joy and sorrow intertwine 
To-night for Jacob’s exiled line. 

O Christian, thou wilt gladly sing 
When Lenten bells till Easter ring l 

Set in white, the Paschal feast 

A holy awe awakes, 

As Israel’s father, Hebrew-voiced, 

The Exodus relates: 

He blesses first the cup of wine 

Then reads the service line by line. 

Thy faith, 0 Christian, rest to-night 
Upon this white-robed Paschal rite. 

He praises God, and washes hands, 

And breaks the middle cake,— 

Old sorrow’s three-fold symbol bread 

Which Israelites partake. 

He then invites Jews in distress 

To come and Israel’s hope confess. 

O Gentile! from the wilds of sin 
To home-life Christians call thee in. 

Salt and water, tears recall 

Which sprang from sorrows’ fount, 

As plague and death in ten degrees 

To Pharaoh’s throne-room mount; 

And blows that fell on Israel’s back 

Return to Egypt’s heart, alack! 

Beware, 0 Gentile! of the fate 
Of all the sons of Judenhate. 


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Burnt and bare, a lamb’s shank-bone 
Recalls the lamb once slain, 

But as a bloodless sacrifice 
The offering is vain: 

No priest a Paschal lamb can slay 
While from the Temple courts away! 

O Christian, in the Lamb of God, 

How great! how sweet is thy reward! 

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Parsley, hyssop’s counterpart,— 

Soft moss in Egypt grown, 

The sprinkler of the Paschal blood, 

As meekness here is shown; 

For Israel, though a stiff-necked race, 

Will weep before THE LAMB’S kind face. 

Be meek, 0 Christian! kindly bend, 

And nevermore a Jew offend. 

An egg love’s sacrifice denotes 
And resurrection life,— 

A symbol of the Red Sea crossed 
And song displacing strife: 

The Promised Land to faith appears, 

Where home’s delightful prospect cheers. 

Thy home, O Christian is on high, 

The Resurrection bright-gate by. 

Wise and simple sons inquire, 

“Why do we do these things?” 

Because from Egypt we come forth 
Beneath Jehovah’s wings. 

The wicked son himself excludes 
When to God’s wonders he alludes. 

O Christian! for the Eucharist 
Dost thou thy Cross-signed sons enlist? 

Abram’s call and Jacob’ fear, 

And Laban’s Syrian hate, 

And Joseph’s sale and servitude 
The Liturgies relate; 

But through them all love’s scarlet thread 
Shows Israel by Jehovah led. 

Faith-life, 0 Christian! study well, 

For sign-tones in Salvation’s bell. 


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Bitter herbs partaken, too, 

Link Judah with the past; 

But with the wine’s inspiring joy 
Old sorrows vanish fast; 

And almonds breathe of hope restored 
With fervent love to God outpoured. 

0 Christian! hope’s strong anchor holds 

When sorrow’s gale thy life enfolds. 

Supper eaten, grace is sung, 

The broken cake brought up,— 

The symbol-bread God’s Manna is, 

His love is in the cup. 

They tell us of the Coming One, 

God’s only sinless, Earth-born Son. 

This cake, 0 Christian! Jesus brake; 

The wine’s “My Blood,” He truly spake. 

The vacant chair inspires a child 
To open wide the door, 

For brave Elijah heralding 

The King we should adore: 

Ah! once He came, and will again, 

To empty Judah’s cup of pain. 

But first, 0 Christian! thou wilt rise 

To meet the Bridegroom of the skies. 

“Next year in Palestine,” we say: 

Lord God, so let it be! 

For only in the Holy Land 
Can Israelites be free,— 

Jerusalem, though far away, 

Is loved as in King David’s day. 

For thee, O Christian! in the air 

God builds Jerusalem the fair. 

And in this hope the service ends 
With symbol-songs of joy, 

Which leave the Jew in Gentile lands 
As merry as a boy,— 

A foretaste of the Golden Age 
Revealed on the Haggodah page. 

And then, 0 Christian! thou wilt reign 

With Christ, the Lamb for sinners slain. 


Chapter V. 


THE HOLY SPIRIT IN ISRAEL AND IN THE 

CHURCH 

Christ was not only crucified on the anniversary of the day 
when the first Paschal lamb was slain in Egypt, Israel’s feast 
of freedom, the birthday of our nation; but He also arose from 
the dead on the anniversary of the day that our fathers 
crossed the Red Sea, Israel’s Sabbath of the Song and the 
Christian’s Easter Sunday. 

The law was given to Moses for the guidance of Israel at 
Mt. Sinai on the Feast of Pentecost, and on the first 
Christian Pentecost the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the 
Church at Jerusalem for her guidance into all truth. 

Immediately before the Feast of Pentecost (Revelation) 
the elders in Israel went through the wheatfields and attached 
red and white ribbons, symbolizing sin and salvation, to the 
ears which had ripened most rapidly. These were gathered 
and offered in thanksgiving to God on the first day of the 
feast in the foriji of two wave loaves (Lev. 23:17). 

Christ, in like manner, went through the spiritual wheat 
fields of Jew r ry and attached metaphorically red and white 
ribbons to those in Israel who had ripened most rapidly for 
the resurrection harvest, three thousand of whom were sealed 
by the Holy Spirit on the first Christian Pentecost, against 
the day of redemption (Acts 2:41). 

Between Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles, the feast 
of gladness, Israel gathered from the harvest fields what was 
needed for immediate use, until the annual Thanksgiving day, 
when the entire harvest was gathered safely in. The Holy 
Spirit, likewise, from the day of Pentecost, has been selecting 
from the spiritual harvest fields of the world a people for 
Christ’s name from the Gentiles and a remnant, according to 
the election of grace, from among the Jews (Acts 15:14-17; 
Rom. 11:5, 25-27). 


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When the anti-typical feast of Tabernacles is fulfilled, all 
the Gentiles and all Israel who are spared in the Great 
Tribulation will celebrate the greatest Feast of Gladness the 
world has known (Zech. 14:16). This will come at the 
beginning of the millennial spiritual harvest, when Christ 
returns to the Mount of Olives and begins His universal 
reign of righteousness and peace on earth. 

Thus it follows, as everything in Israel’s worship was pat¬ 
terned on the heavenly worship, that everything in Israel’s 
worship should have a spiritual counterpart in Christian 
worship. The historic churches (Protestant Episcopal and 
others), in their original purity, had the spiritual expression 
of the ancient Temple worship, but they now over-emphasize 
the corporate side of the Truth. The modern churches (Con¬ 
gregational and others) have the spiritual expression of the 
ancient synagogue worship and they over-emphasize the in¬ 
dividual side of Truth even to a greater extent. 

True catholicity demands that the individual and corporate 
elements of faith should be held in equal balance, and a 
recognition by the Church Universal that in Israel’s national 
life the synagogue services were a necessary supplement to 
the Temple worship cannot fail to break down some of the 
barriers which separate pious believers in the historic churches 
from equally pious worshippers in the modern churches. 

The Jewish prayer scarf is the father of the Episcopal 
stole; the command, “Enter the Courts of the Lord with 
praise,” justifies the processional hymn; “the brazen altar” 
typified Israel’s corporate public confession of sin and the 
need of sacrificial atonement; the “laver” symbolized cleans¬ 
ing by the “water of the Word of God;” the “seven-branched 
candlestick” illustrated the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit; 
“the table of shewbread,” the oneness of the body of Christ— 
all true believers; “the altar of incense,” the prayers of the 
saints; and the Shekinah Glory in the “holy of holies” typi¬ 
fied the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 

The progress in religious life was, according to the teach¬ 
ing in Israel, “Zeal, integrity, purity, holiness (through the 
sacrificial offering), meekness, the fear of sin, the Holy 


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Spirit.” Practically everyone before conversion or confirma¬ 
tion has an impulse toward (1) “zeal” (2) “integrity,” (3) 
“purity,” and Christian teaching clearly corresponds with 
the last four of the seven virtues enumerated above: (4) 
“Come unto me” (the sin-bearer), said Christ; (5) “learn of 
Me: for I am meek and lowly in heart” (Matt. 11:28, 29); 
and, (6), as St. Paul wrote, “Abstain from all appearance of 
evil;” (7) “and the very God of peace sanctify you wholly” (1 
Thess. 5:22, 23). 

Every follower of Christ belongs to a royal priesthood (1 
Pet. 2:9). In some branches of the Church the ministry has 
been unduly exalted above the laity, leading often to an over¬ 
bearing self-assumption on the part of those who are but first 
among equals, and a disregard of Christ’s injunction: “Who¬ 
soever will be chief among you, let him be your servant” 
(Matt. 20:27). On the other hand, the laity often ignore the 
command, “Obey them that have the rule over you, and 
submit yourselves; for they watch for your souls, as they 
that must give an account, that they may do it with joy, 
and not with grief, for that is unprofitable to you” (Heb. 
13:17). When the worship in Israel had become confused 
God called and anointed for service prophets and witnesses 
outside the regular Levitical order. He changes not. 

The offering of incense, feet washing, greeting with a holy 
kiss, confession to the priesthood, and other doctrines that 
have caused schism in the Church, are in a measure lawful, 
but their compulsory observance are not essential to salvation. 
Some had their beginning in Eastern conditions and their 
commemoration in the spirt is continued under western cus¬ 
toms. For instance, the blacking of a Christian brother's 
boots in England is as truly a sign of humility there as the 
washing of the saints’ feet was in Jerusalem. To forgive sin, 
insomuch as it relates to man’s eternal salvation, is a 
prerogative of the Godhead. Christ has power to forgive sin, 
because He was God manifested in the flesh. Absolution, 
public or private, on the part of Christian ministers is simply 
the declaration of God’s unfailing mercy to repentant sinners. 
Any child of God who understands the plan of salvation pos- 


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sesses the blessed privilege of spreading this good news 
abroad. If a public sin is committed, public confession is es¬ 
sential; a private sin should be confessed to the one trans¬ 
gressed against; secret sins confessed to God alone. In¬ 
discriminate confession of sins to friends or neighbors is un¬ 
wise. When conscience is burdened, and rest of conscience 
cannot be obtained by personal communion with our God of 
mercy, the wise course is to seek counsel, and the assurance 
of God’s forgiveness through the blood of Christ, from one’s 
own pastor or a godly man or woman. 

Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek. Christ is a priest 
after the order of Melchizedek. He declared that our righte¬ 
ousness must exceed that of the Pharisees, who paid tithes. 
The eleven tribes in Israel had to support one tribe, the 
Levites, who in turn had to tithe their income to support the 
sons of Aaron. Tithes today should be devoted exclusively 
to the support of orthodox ministers of the Gospel in the 
homeland, or to the support of orthodox missionaries in for¬ 
eign fields, but should not be given to feed the poor or build 
churches, etc.: These benefactions come under the name of 
free-will offerings. It is said that about the third of one’s 
income in Israel went to the payment of tithes, free-will of¬ 
ferings, taxes and charities. Restitution is compulsory for 
sins committed in our Christless days by confession or other¬ 
wise. It is a means of grace to all concerned. 

One of the great weaknesses of the Church is the neglect or 
refusal of Christian parents to exercise their priestly func¬ 
tions in the home. The family altar is almost entirely neg¬ 
lected, religious instruction is left mostly to the Sunday- 
school, and even a simple grace at table is often ignored in 
the majority of Christian homes. In Orthodox Jewish 
families thrice daily the passage is repeated: “Thou 
shalt teach these things diligently unto thy children, and 
shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, when thou 
walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou 
riseth up” (Deut. 6:4). In Israel boys become sons of the 
law at the age of thirteen, a ceremony somewhat similar to 
Confirmation in the Christian Church. In non-Episcopal 


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churches conversion (so-called) is often unconscious confir¬ 
mation. 

In loyal Orthodox Jewish homes, immediately preceding 
the family meal on Sabbath eve, there is a brief service similar 
to the “Lord’s Supper,” when the head of the home “breaks 
bread,” blesses it, and, after partaking himself, he passes it 
to the mother, and to all the children and guests present; he 
then blesses the cup of wine, and all take a sip. The father 
then places his hands on the heads of his children and pro¬ 
nounces a benediction, wherein they unconsciously acknowl¬ 
edge “God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” 

The baptism of the Holy Ghost is the prime factor in 
joyful Christian worship and power for service. Without 
his aid neither Jew nor Gentile can sav unto salvation that 
Jesus is the Lord” (1 Cor. 12:3). Jews, Protestants and 
Catholics acknowledge belief in the Holy Spirit; but how few 
welcome His fellowship in their daily lives! When Israel 
came forth from Egypt, our fathers were willing to listen to 
the voice of Moses, but not to the voice of God; and through¬ 
out Christendom today a like condition prevails. At Sinai 
the Lord spoke in trumpet tones; and the terrible World 
War, declared on the anniversary of the destruction of Israel’s 
temple, was His trumpet blast of warning to the nations to 
prepare for the withdrawal of the Holy Spirit from the 
Church (2 Tliess. 2:1-12) prior to the time of Jacob’s Trouble 
and His awful judgments on the Gentiles. Therefore it be¬ 
hooves every loyal Christian to remember our Lord’s parable 
of the wise and foolish virgins and seek diligently to keep 
their lamps filled with oil (the Holy Spirit) lest we be taken 
in the snare of Satan and shut out from the marriage supper 
of the Lamb. (Matt. 25:1-13). We are temples of the Holy 
Ghost, Who has to do a work in us before He can do a work 
through us, whether we be Jews or Gentiles. Christ de¬ 
clared, “When he is come he will reprove the world of sin and 
of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin because they be¬ 
lieve not on me” (John 16:8, 9). We “resist” (Acts 7:5) the 
Holy Spirit when we refuse His admonitions to turn from sin 
and accept God’s free offer of salvation in Christ; we “grieve” 


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(Eph. 4:30) the Holy Spirit when we wilfully transgress the 
law of love after conversion; we “quench” (1 Thess. 5:19) 
the Holy Spirit when we neglect the joy of worship or refuse 
to go on errands of mercy, as Jonah refused, or strive in 
any way to interfere with the Divine operations in our own 
lives or in the lives of our fellow believers. Consequently, we 
are commanded to “preach the word; be instant, in season, 
out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering 
and doctrine” (2 Tim. 4:2). But at all times we should be 
careful to cast the beams out of our own eyes before we seek 
to cast the motes out of our brothers’ eyes. (Matt. 7:3, 4). 

Within a vision of conscience I saw 
A beam in mine eye was sticking, 

While a mote from the eye of a neighbor nearby 
With an angry frown I was picking. 

Then in the vision there mournfully stood 
A form like the Man of Sorrow, 

Whose eye, clear as crystal, reprovingly said, 

“That duty leave till tomorrow.” 

The vision of conscience then showed mine eyes 
With tears of repentance o’erflowing; 

And the beam fell out, and my neighbor’s mote 
Kept dwindling as mine was going. 

No better brief scriptural passage can be found for our 
guidance in the holy life than in the first Epistle to the 
Thessalonians, fifth chapter, verses sixteen to twenty-three. 
It begins with the command, “Rejoice evermore;” for every 
day is holy to Christians, and it was considered a sin in Israel 
to be sad on a holy day. We cannot always rejoice in our¬ 
selves, our circumstances, or our friends, but there is never 
a moment when it is not possible to “rejoice in the Lord” 
(Phil. 3:4), unless our fellowship with Him is broken by 
sin, cherished or unconfessed. “Pray without ceasing” (v. 
17), implies four elements easy to be remembered by an 
acrostic, ACTS (adoration, confession, thanksgiving, sup¬ 
plication): (1) adoration of God; (2) confession to Him; 


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(3) thanksgiving for His forgiving love and mercy; (4) 
supplication for our own needs and the needs of others. “In 
everything give thanks” (v. 18) suggests the victory of 
“glorying in tribulation/’ to which the apostle refers in 
Romans 5:3-5. “Quench not the Spirit; despise not prophesy- 
ings” (vs. 19, 20), is possible only to those who recognize 
doctrinally and experimentally that God is as willing today to 
give the Holy Spirit to His children as He was at Jerusalem, 
Caesarea and Ephesus (Acts 2:1-13; 10:44-48; 19:1-7), 
when they rejoice in the knowledge that the Spirit is working 
today in the hearts of His true children as He did in the 
primitive church. “Prove all things; hold fast that which is 
good” (v. 21), plainly reveals that nothing really belongs to 
us spiritually until we have proved it experimentally. 
“Abstain from all appearance of evil” (v. 22), applies even 
to things innocent and lawful in themselves which might be 
pardonably misjudged by others when associated with ques¬ 
tionable places, times and circumstances. “And the very God 
of peace sanctify you wholly” (v. 23), is a distinct reference 
to the Holy Spirit Himself, as the succeeding clause of the 
verse is to tripartite man,—“And I pray God your whole 
spirit (symbolized by the holy of holies in the Temple wor¬ 
ship), soul (the holy place), and body (the outer court), be 
preserved blameless until the coming of our Lord Jesus 
Christ.” Some worshippers surrender their spirits but not 
their souls and bodies to the control of the PIolv Snirit; 
some surrender spirit and soul; but very few fully surrender 
spirit, soul and body to Him for entire sanctification. 

We are commanded, too, to worship God with the spirit 
and the understanding (1 Cor. 14:15); for he has given us 
His Spirit to minister to our spirits, and His Word to minister 
to our undersanding: That the two are needed for perfect 
guidance is clear from the record of the first Council of the 
Christian Church at Jerusalem, where the Word is referred 
to (Acts 15:15-18) and the Spirit (v. 28). Some devout 
Christians magnify the Word of God above His Spirit, and 
become hard in their judgments; others exalt the Holy Spirit 
above the Word and become fanatical. When thus faulty in 


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either case, we are like birds with broken or wounded wings, a 
pathetic spectacle; but if like birds of strongest flight we 
poise ourselves on these two wings of faith and freedom, 
which God has given us for guidance, we can bring Him down 
from His throne to His footstool in our holy worship, and go 
triumphantly to the ends of the world in His loving service. 
Because some devout worshippers disobey God’s Word by al¬ 
lowing confusion in their assemblies where they claim the 
Spirit is working, other devout Christians are not justified in 
denying the manifestations of the Holy Spirit when the 
Scriptures declare that He works in marvelous and mysterious 
ways. On the other hand, because some strong-willed Bible 
teachers forget that “the letter killeth but the spirit giveth 
life” (2 Cor. 3:6), fanatical Christians are not justified 
in letting their imaginations run riot in disobedience to the 
Word of God. Wood for exquisite cabinet work has to be 
frequently soaked in water and dried in an oven until it 
becomes so well seasoned that it will neither swell nor shrink. 
Christians, too, should be so perfectly seasoned by the water 
and fire of the Word and the Spirit that they will neither 
“swell” when honored by God nor “shrink” when dishonored 
by man, when loyally doing the work of the Master. Doves 
will not remain where there is inharmonious noise; nor will 
the Holy Spirit dwell with Christians where there is confusion 
or a lack of love (1 Cor. 14:23-33). When the spirit of 
meekness prevails individual members of every branch of the 
church do meet as brothers beloved; but unclouded spiritual 
fellowship is almost impossible in the present doctrinal con- 
fussion. Many cry “peace, peace, where there is no peace” 
(Eze. 13:10). 

A realization of the high priestly office of Christ comforts 
and sustains in trial and perplexity, when we come boldly to 
the throne of grace whereon He sits in intercessory love 
(Heb. 4:14-16). Moreover, within the limits of church divi¬ 
sions and canonical, synodical and conference restraints, a 
multitude of Christ’s under-shepherds self-sacrificingly 
minister to saint and sinner, indifferent though some of their 
fellow-ministers be to the destressful cries of the lambs and 


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sheep of other folds and to the need of the world’s evangeliza¬ 
tion. 

THE DAY OF ATONEMENT 

(At the end of the Day of Atonement services in Orthodox 
synogogues there is given a solitary triumphant blast of the 
trumpet (shofar). In the ancient Temple worship the blast was 
probably given when the High Priest left the holy of holies, after 
Almighty God had signified His acceptance of Israel’s annual na¬ 
tional sacrifice for sin. The New Testament declares that “at the 
last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be 
raised incorruptible” (1st Cor. 15:52), Christ, our eternal High 
Priest, comes out of the heavenly holy of holies, immediately pre¬ 
ceding “the rapture of the saints.” 

But previous to this the Church must keep her corporate anti¬ 
typical Day of Atonement. Its observance is drawing near; and 
I would ask every child of God who is burdened with grief over 
sins of commission, omission, presumption or ignorance, to join in 
the following prayer, in order that we, individually and collectively, 
may have daily victory over the flesh, the world and the devil, and 
be enabled to go forth in the joyful fellowship of the Holy Spirit 
to bless and comfort others who are striving for like victory.) 

O God, my Father, hear my prayer, 

Or I shall falter or despair: 

My prayer concede for Jesus’ sake,— 

All sin, oh, help me to forsake! 

Past sins beneath Christ’s blood are hid; 

But future sins, O God, forbid 
I should commit against the light 
Thou hast diffused o’er my soul’s sight. 

The flesh, the world, the devil,—all 
Conspiringly devise my fall, 

When weakly in temptation’s hour 
I sink beneath their subtle power. 

Now, now, O God, as conscience stings 
And from my spirit anguish wrings, 

Help me on Christ all grief to cast, 

And teach me wisdom from the past! 

I do His soul an Offering make 
For sin which Thou dost gladly take; 

Whilst of His travail He doth see 
A satisfaction full in me. 


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He died to bear my shame and grief! 
In Him alone I find relief! 

Yet slow I am to let His grace 
Of purity, my sin efface. 

Restore, O God, Thy joy and peace, 
Till in their fulness of increase, 

My weakness in Thy might is strong 
To conquer every sense of wrong! 


And send, Lord Jesus, from above 
The Spirit of consoling love, 

That all the comfort I shall know 
May to the weak in blessing flow. 


CHRIST, THE KING OF GLORY 

We meet as Israel’s loyal sons 
With Gentile saints entwining 
The roses of our love for One 
Whose love on us is shining; 

And we review the coming day, 

Best loved in Israel’s story, 

When nations will sweet homage pay 
To Christ, the King of Glory. 

We meet to bless the Holy Dove, 

Who on our hearts alighted 
And whispered that the Lamb of God 
The ancient wrong had righted,— 
With orisons to greet the day, 

Best loved in Israel’s story, 

When nations will sweet homage pay 
To Christ, the King of Glory. 

We meet in contrite humbleness, 

Our weaknesses confessing, 

That King-Messiah’s mighty strength 
May make us strong in blessing; 

As loyal workmen for the day, 

Best loved in Israel’s story, 

When nations will sweet homage pay 
To Christ, the King of Glory. 


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We meet in hope (though weeping still 
As Jews for Judah’s sorrow, 

Our exiled race uncomforted, 

And hopeless for to-morrow); 

Now time is speeding to the day, 

Well loved in Israel’s story, 

When Judah will sweet homage pay 
To Christ, the King of Glory. 

We meet as God’s trimphant sons 
To paint the future golden, 

As prophet, priest and psalmist did, 

Who have the truth unfolden; 

For faith with beauty gilds the day 
Best loved in Israel’s story, 

When nations will sweet homage pay 
To Christ, the King of Glory. 


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Chapter VI. 

CHRISTIAN TYPOLOGY IN THE BOOK OF LIFE 

AND THE CHERUBIM 

Throughout the scriptures we have frequent references to 
God’s books and the Book of Life (Ex. 32:30-33; Ps. 69:28; 
139:16; Ezek. 2:9; Dan. 12:1, Mai. 3:16; Luke 10:20; Phil. 
4:3; Heb. 12:22-24; Rev. 5:1-5; 10:2; 20:12-15; 21:27). 
The rabbis taught that God opens His books on Israel’s New 
Year’s Day, the Feast of Trumpets, and blots eternally from 
the Book of Life the names of those who have been blasphem¬ 
ously wicked during the past year. The pious have their 
names re-inscribed immediately in the Book of Life; and the 
lukewarm, careless and sinful (not blasphemously) are given 
ten days of penitence, culminating in the great Day of Atone¬ 
ment, wherein to make their peace with Almighty God, origin¬ 
ally and scripturally through the sacrificial offering, and since 
the destruction of the Temple, as erroneously taught in Jewry, 
through prayer, penitence and charity. The rabbis taught 
correctly of old that there were three spirits in Israel, namely, 
the Holy Spirit, the good spirit, and the evil spirit, and noth¬ 
ing was holy in God’s sight, (person or gift) unless it was 
purified by the atoning blood of a spotless sin-offering. 

New Testament teaching corresponds exactly with that of 
the Old Testament. Cornelius, a Gentile, w r as a good man, 
“Who gave much alms to the people and prayed to God 
alway,” but he was an unsaved man until the Jewish apostle 
Peter was sent to teach him the way of salvation through the 
atoning blood of Christ, the Eternal Lamb of God (Acts 
10:1-6; 11:14). The Epistle to the Hebrews portrays, more¬ 
over, the three classes of present-day Church and Synagogue 
worshippers. The blasphemously wicked man is described in 
Hebrews 10:26-31, “ who hath trodden under foot the Son 
of God, and accounted the blood of the covenant, wherewith 
he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and done despite unto the 


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spirit of grace/’ after the Holy Spirit had clearly revealed 
that Christ is the true Paschal Lamb. This sin is identical 
with the one our fathers committed in the wilderness when 
they turned their back on the blood of redemption shed in 
Egypt and demanded of Aaron that he make them “gods of 
gold’’ (Ex. 32:1-6). The Lord said to Moses, in answer to 
his plea for mercy to the transgressors, “Whosoever hath 
sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book’’ (v. 33). 

The pious class is revealed in the eleventh chapter of 
Hebrews, wherein every name mentioned has a symbolical 
meaning: Abel (vanity) brought the atoning blood; Enoch 
(dedicated) walked with God; Noah (rest) proclaimed God’s 
truth in his family circle and to others of his generation; 
Abraham (father of a great multitude) left home to publish 
the truth in distant lands; Sarah (queen) became the mother 
of princes; Isaac (laughter) received power to bless with 
holy joy and gladness. When closely studied, it will be found 
that these and succeeding names in this chapter give progres¬ 
sive steps in Christian life, worship and service, whether in 
temporary defeat or in glorious victory. 

The lukewarm class is distinctly referred to in the twelfth 
chapter of Hebrews, where they are described as being, in¬ 
dividually and collectively, under the chastening hand of God. 
But Christians should clearly understand that the pious class 
in Israel was not allowed to stand apart in complacent 
spiritual pride, but was commanded during the penitential 
season to plead with the sinful class to make their peace with 
God on the annual day of Atonement, and to warn the rebel¬ 
lious that they stood in peril of having their names eternally 
blotted from the Book of Life, if they wilfully rejected or 
carelessly neglected His offer of mercy. 

The contrast between the two covenants which God made 
with Israel and Judah is clearly set forth in the Scripture, 
Hebrews 12:18-24, and is better understood when considered 
in the light of the foregoing ancient teaching: Here we find 
the heavenly Jerusalem taking the place of the earthly 
Jerusalem; “the general assembly and church of the firstborn,” 
mentioned in contrast with the annual gathering at Jerusalem 


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for the autumn convocations of the Feast of Trumpets, the Day 
of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles; and the assur¬ 
ance that their “NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN,” 
is in exact accord with the teaching of the penitential season 
in Israel. The mention of “Jesus, the mediator of the new 
covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling,” is in correspondence 
with the Aaronic command and custom on the Day of Atone¬ 
ment of sprinkling the Mercy Seat with the blood of remis¬ 
sion, without which no true Israelite believed of old that his 
name was written in the Book of Life. 

This uniformity of teaching in the Old and New Testments 
concerning sin, atonement, and subsequent service, is nowhere 
more beautifully illustrated than in the symbolism of the 
Cherubim parallelled in Christian worship. Our parents had 
sinned in Eden and were in danger of eternally perpetuating 
the sin by partaking of the Tree of Life in the midst of the 
garden. They were driven out and the Almighty placed 
Cherubim with a flaming sword to guard the tree. Four heads 
from one river watered the Garden of Eden (Gen. 2:10-17; 
3:22-24). 

We discover the second scriptural reference to the Cherubim 
in Israel’s tabernacle worship, where they hovered over the 
mercy seat in the holy of holies (Ex. 37:6-9); and their four 
faces of lion, eagle, ox, and man, were portrayed on the four 
main standards of Israel (Num. 2:3, 10, 18, 25) when our 
fathers marched under discipline through the wilderness and 
triumphantly across the Jordan. During the Babylonian cap¬ 
tivity several visions of the Cherubim were given to Ezekiel 
(Chapters 1:2-21; 3:12-21; 10:8-22). John also on the 
Isle of Patmos had a revelation of the Cherubim bowing down 
in adorable worship before the throne of the Lord God 
Almighty (Rev. 4: 6-8). 

As Israel’s worship was patterned on the heavenly worship, 
and everything in Israel’s worship should have its spiritual 
counterpart in Christian worship, where are the Cherubim 
discovered antitypically today? In the life of our Lord 
Jesus they had their supreme revelation on earth, and Christ 
is represented in the Gospel of Matthew as the lion; in Mark 


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as the ox; in Luke as the man; and in John as the eagle. But 
we must study the fourth chapter of the Epistle to the 
Ephesians for present-day human correspondence to the 
Cherubim in Christian worship and service. We are taught 
herein that the body of Christ is one, and that the Lord has 
given for the perfecting of that body apostles, prophets, 
evangelists, and pastors and teachers, the last two comprising 
one order of ministry in the Church. When sinful men are 
“born again of the spirit and water” (the word of God), the 
Tree of Life is implanted in their human nature, with its 
“four heads” of the river of feeling, namely, the will, the 
imagination, the reason and the affections, and the ministries 
are given for protection against the assaults of every enemy, 
human or demoniacal. 

The apostle, (elder in the local church) under the figure of 
the lion, ministers to the will; the prophet, under the figure of 
the eagle, ministers to the imagination; the evangelist, under 
the figure of the man, ministers to the reason; and the pastor, 
under the figure of the ox, minsters to the affections. We are 
deficient in our spiritual development, and to that extent 
useless, in whatever degree these God-ordained ministries do 
not revolve around our natures in equal proportion (Eph. 
4:7-16), even as the most beautifully engraved silver tea 
and coffee pots soon become useless when the lathe upon 
which they were formed did not revolve around the metal 
equally everywhere. Our present-day system of a one-man 
ministry is altogether unscriptural and is chiefly responsible 
for the weakness of our Christian worship and service. 
Children of God are wise when they avail themselves of 
ministries, apart altogether from denominational affiliation, 
which will build them up on sides of their nature not de¬ 
veloped by their local under-shepherd, or over-developed 
because of undue emphasis. When the will is over-developed, 
we have a rule of iron or ruin; when the imagination is un¬ 
restrained it leads to fanaticism, lunacy or suicide; the reason, 
if over-exercised, tends to Unitarianism, agnosticism and in¬ 
fidelity; and the affections, unchecked by the will and reason, 


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are drawn to idolatry of earthly friends or things, and some¬ 
times lead to shame. 

In Christendom there are many denominations and church 
buildings, but there is only one true Church of Christ; and 
every Jew and Gentile redeemed by His precious blood is a 
member of this indivisible church. Spiritual gifts are be¬ 
stowed for the blessing of every member of this one body; 
and, so far as time and opportunity permit, every minister 
and every layman is obligated to serve every other child of 
God throughout the wide, wide world, irrespective of denomi¬ 
national affiliation. We place ourselves in the class of hirelings 
when we limit our service to the question of financial pay¬ 
ment, and we are bigots when we allow doctrinal bias or 
prejudice to interfere with the inclusive exercise of a God- 
ordained ministry. 

The four orders of ministry were found in every scriptur- 
allv constituted church during the early Christian centuries; 
and worshippers today are wise to wait on the ministry of any 
servant of God who can build them up on a side of their 
spiritual nature that is left undeveloped by their own under¬ 
shepherd or can tone down another side that is over-developed 
through undue emphasis placed on the will, the reason, the 
imagination, or the affections. 

The colors, too, in Israel’s worship (Ex. 25:4, 5) were 
symbolic i “red” (evangelist); “white” (pastor); “blue” 
(prophet); “yellow” (apostle). We seldom see the gold 
braiding (yellow) on our United States national flag, because 
rule and discipline is ignored in our churches. In the Jewish 
national flag there is no red, because our people have rejected 
the atoning work of Christ; and the gold braiding is never 
seen, because Jews generally are a law unto themselves 
religiously. When Christ returns as the trimphant King of 
Israel and King of Kings, “purple,” the regal color, will be 
added to our Anglo-Saxon flags, and all the colors will be 
restored to Judah’s flag and the flag of every nation; for then 
“the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the 
waters cover the sea” (Isa. 11:9; Hab. 2:14). 


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The Cherubim’s four faces. 

In Israel’s Temple seen, 

Adorned the Hebrew Standards 
In war and life serene: 

Still in the Heavenly worship 

They bow before God's throne; 
And in our Christian warfare 
Each anti-type is known: 

The “Lion,” types Apostles,— 

The “Man” Evangelists; 

The “Eagle” types the Prophets— 
The “Ox” the pastors (Christ’s), 
To train all Christian soldiers 
For battles of the Cross, 

Till God’s full armor, fitting, 

Defends from wound and loss. 

“Imagination,” “Reason,” 

“Affections” and the “Will” 
These ministries develope 

For mercy and good will, 

Until we reach the statue 
Of perfect men in Christ 
With unity of blessing 

Where self is sacrificed. 

And Israel’s primal colors, 

In Tabernacle shown, 

Give “purple” for the ruler,— 

In truth, Messiah’s own. 

“Red” reveals evangelists; 

The pastors’ stole is “white;” 
The “gold” denotes apostles; 

The “blue,” the prophets bright. 




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Chapter VII. 

THE GREAT WAR AND RED-LETTER DAYS IN 

JUDAH’S HISTORY. 

“The blood of a brother is red on thine hand, 

A brother beloved in an alien land!” 

O Judah! O Judah! how sad is our fate, 

Loved clansmen to slay in these battles of hate, 

While Gentiles keep rank with men of their race, 

And feel not the pang of an exile’s disgrace. 

But hearken, O brother! now knowst thou not 
That Ab’s mournful moon heard the Gentiles first shot 
In the twenty-five hundred and twentieth year 
Since Jews were first captured in Babylon’s war? 

“The Times of the Gentiles,” now ending in wrath, 

For Judah leads homeward through War’s bloody path. 

God’s trumpets are sounding, His judgments are sent 
To warn guilty nations of sin to repent: 

The pious, the lukewarm, the wicked are where 
The Gentiles are waging their War of Despair! 

But all who shall call on the name of the Lord 
Are saved, by His grace, from Eternity’s Sword! 

The Golden Age cometh when nations will dwell 
In peace after Satan is cast into hell; 

But Antichrist first will raise his dread hand 
At Israel to strike in our own Promised Land, 

Where Judah’s long exile of God-measured woe 
Will end when her tears for Messiah outflow! 

Israel taught that God divided time into four parts to cor¬ 
respond with the seven days of the week: Two thousand 
years of waiting time, namely, until Abraham’s lifetime; two 
thousand years of law, until the time of Messiah; and then 
two thousand years until His return to usher in the one 
thousand years of Sabbatic peace, i. e., “The Golden Age.” 
This corresponds with orthodox Christian teaching, even 


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though many Christians who are studious remember not that 
there are three methods of reckoning yearly time: Solar 
(365% days); prophetic (360 days); and lunar (354 days). 
Prophecy is sometimes confused because we ignore this fact; 
and it is interesting to note that 5914 A. M. solar years (4000 
B. C. plus 1914 A. D.), the beginning of the Great War, when 
extended to prophetic years total 6000 years exactly. We 
must remember, moreover, that every dispensation recorded in 
scripture commenced w r ith a promised blessing for obedience, 
witnessed a speedy punishment for sin, and ended in a gen¬ 
eral apostasy and judgment. The Christian dispensation is 
ending in apostasy and can no more escape its judgment than 
did the Edenic, Adamic, Noahic, Abrahamic and Mosaic ages: 
Men still have to earn their bread “in the sweat of the face;” 
women still bear children in “sorrow;” murderers continue to 
be “fugitives;” the children of Ham still are “servants of 
servants;” the speech of mankind is still “confounded;” the 
children of Israel are still exiles from the Holy Land and 
our Jewish brethren continue “a scorn and by-word” in all 
lands. These curses will afflict the human race until the re¬ 
turn of Jesus Christ, “Whom the heavens must receive until 
the times of restitution of all things, which God has spoken 
by the mouth of his holy prophets since the world began” 
(Acts. 3:21). The sting, thank God! is removed from every 
curse, for all who obediently accept His offer of mercy now. 
(Gen. 3:14,23; 4:12; 6:5; 7:24; 9:25; 11:6-8; 12:1-3; 19:24- 
26; Ex. 1:7-14; 6:6-8; Lev. 10:1-2; Deu. 28:37; Dan. 6:4-12; 
Matt. 24:1-14; Acts 2:1-4; 5:1-11; 2 Thess. 2:1-12; 2 Tim. 
3:1-5). 

That the late terrible war began on the double anniversary 
of the destruction of Solomon’s and Herod’s Temples is a 
truth demanding imperative consideration by all diligent 
students of prophecy. It definitely started on August 1, 1914, 
when the Emperor of Germany declared war on the Czar of 
Russia, corresponding in that year with the 9th of Ab in the 
Jewish (lunar) calendar, the dark day on which the Jews 
mourn their defeats at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar and 
Titus. The first batch of captives was taken from Jerusalem 


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to Babylon, 606 B. C., but the sacred city was not destroyed 
until nineteen years later, (2 Kings, chapters 24 and 25). 
Therefore, Judah’s full seven times of punishment 2,520 years 
(7 x 360: Lev. 26:18), “the times of the Gentiles” (Luke 
21:24), will not expire before 1933, and the ensuing years 
will be replete with sorrow, according to the analogy of 
prophecy. “2,520 is known as the number of chronological 
perfection, and is the product of the four great numbers of 
completion, 3x7x10x12. 3 is the number of Divine per¬ 

fection; 7, spiritual perfection; 10, ordinal perfection; 12, 
governmental perfection; and the Least Common Multiple of 
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 is 2520” (Number in Scripture: 
Bullinger, pp. 23, 24). 

The record is clear in the New Testament that the first four 
feasts of the Lord (Lev. 23: Passover, Unleavened Bread, 
the First Sheaf, and Pentecost) have had their anti-typical 
spiritual fulfillment; but we have no record in the New 
Testament of the anti-typical fulfillment of the last three 
feasts of the Jewish religious year, namely, Trumpets, Day of 
Atonement, and Tabernacles. God’s trumpets began to blow 
loudly on August 1 , 1914, and marked probably the com¬ 
mencement dispensationally for the Church of the “ten days 
of penitence” (Lev. 23:23-27; Joel 2:1-17) culminating in the 
great Day of Atonement, referred to in Zechariah 12:10-14, 
which must be kept nationally by Judah before Messiah’s 
(Christ) return to the Mount of Olives (Zech. 14:4-16) to 
usher in His universal reign of peace, when all nations will 
go annually to Jerusalem to worship “the King, the Lord of 
Hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.” 

That Jews were in all the European armies fighting against 
one another to settle Gentile national quarrels, is the most 
pathetic circumstance connected with the Great War. They 
are a commercial people and dwell mostly in national border 
cities, a condition that has increased Jewish suffering to a 
degree unequaled by any other people; and their sufferings 
have not ceased since the war ended diplomatically. The 
silver lining in the black cloud of horror is found for Jew and 
Gentile, by the lover of Truth, in the absolute accuracy of 


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prophetic fulfillment discovered in present-day conditions. 
Jewry has taught for ages that universal war will prevail 
immediately preceding the coming of Messiah, and Christ 
Himself declared that “nation shall rise against nation and 
kingdom against kingdom” (Matt. 24:4-46), before the budd¬ 
ing of “the fig tree” (Judah), and the restoration of Israel 
(including the Lost Ten Tribes, i. e., the Anglo-Saxons) to 
the Holy Land. 

The war not only commenced on the anniversary of the 
double destruction of Jersusalem, but on the self-same day 
four years later (lunar time, evening and morning being one 
day), July 18-19, 1918, the allied armies began to beat back 
the Germans at the second battle of the Marne, and practi¬ 
cally all the great events of the war accurred on red-letter 
days in Judah’s history: * On Palm Sunday, 1917, the an¬ 
niversary of the day when our Lord rode in triumph through 
Jerusalem, and when our Jewish people went before Him, 
crying, “Hosannah, to the Son of David; blessed is He that 
cometh in the name of the Lord, Hosannah in the highest” 
(Matt. 21 :9), their descendants met in New York to ap¬ 
point a Jewish Congress to petition the Peace Conference at 
Paris to restore them to Palestine, the very land which our 
fathers subsequently lost, because five days later they cried, 
“Crucify Him! Crucify Him!” (Luke 23:21), after they 
in their nationalistic disappontment and spiritual declension 
concluded that He was a false Messiah when He allowed the 
Romans to take Him prisoner. 

The exact correspondence of Jewish history with this 1917 
Palm Sunday event is more plainly seen when we recall that 
President Wilson on Good Fridav of the same week declared 
war on Germany. This date is luminous in the additional 
correspondence of the Jewish and Christian religious calen¬ 
dars coinciding; they were disrupted at the Council of Nicea 
(A. D. 325), when the date of Easter was changed: Solar and 
Lunar time met at the Passover season of 1917,—April 6th 
being the exact anniversary of the day when Christ was 

*On Palm Sunday, 1921, the American Jewish Congress was made 
permanent. 



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crucified (Nisan 14th). The Jews have not slain Paschal 
lambs since the destruction of Jerusalem, and they began 
their celebration of the Feast of Unleavened bread at sunset 
on Good Friday, Nisan 15th (evening and morning in lunar 
reckoning, being one day). 

Again, on the first day of the Jewish Feast of Lights (New 
Testament: “Dedication/’ John 10:22-23), General Allenby 
took Jerusalem, December 9, 1917. This feast is celebrated 
annually by the Jews for eight days to commemorate the 
cleansing of the second Temple, after the armies of Antiochus 
Epiphanes, who had profaned it, were defeated by the Mac- 
cabeans. Christ’s birthday sometimes falls on the first day 
of the Feast, and He was circumcised on his eigth day (New 
Year's Day “January 1st”), annually commemorated in the 
historic churches, as the “Feast of the Circumcision.” Jesus 
is “the Light of the world,” and the analogy of His life with 
the “Feast of Lights” is made clearer when we remember 
that His body was a Clean Temple and that one candle is 
burnt by the Jews on the first day of the Feast, and increased 
daily by one until finally eight are burnt on the eighth day 
(circumcision). Christ’s deliverance of Israel cannot come 
until everv Son of Jacob has “circumcised his heart” and 
cleansed the temple of his body with the precious blood which 
Christ Himself has shed for us. 

Resolutions of sympathy with Jewish national aspirations 
were adopted by the St. Louis General Convention of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, October 
23, 1916, and by other American religious bodies during the 
following years; and on the first day of the Jewish Feast of 
Pentecost (Jerusalem time) May 16, 1918, the Diocesan 
Convention of the District of Columbia, Washington, D. C., 
appointed a committee to present the said resolutions to the 
Jewish Congress which was held subsequently at Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, December, 1918. Similar resolutions were 
adopted by the Pastors’ Federation, consisting of all the 
larger Christian denominations of Washington, and the author 
was deputed to present these resolutions to the Jewish Con¬ 
gress. 


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In the same year General Allenby expelled the Turks from 
the upper part of Palestine on the Feast of Tabernacles 
(Sept. 21-28, 1918). He took Nazareth on the last day of 
the Feast—the anniversary of the day when Christ cried in 
the Temple: “If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and 
drink” (John 7:37). The last chapter of the law of Moses is 
read in the Synagogue on this day; and “Christ is the end of 
the Law for righteousness to everyone that believeth” (Rom. 
10:4). 

From the foregoing, it may be clearly seen that the chief 
events of the Great War, most important to Judah, and also 
to Israel, occured on red-letter days of our ancient history, 
and ran parallel with the focusing of so many lines of proph¬ 
ecy into one brilliant ray of fulfillment, and they afford 
additional proof that the Lord has begun again to deal with 
Judah nationally. Thus Judah’s age-long desire for restora¬ 
tion to Palestine is on the eve of fulfillment under the pro¬ 
tectorate of Great Britain and the United States, whose 
Anglo-Saxon citizens are undoubtedly the descendants of the 
lost ten tribes of Israel. The European nations are so 
weakened by the Great War that a confederation will finally 
result for mutual protection under a supreme ruler, the anti- 
Christ of Scripture (Dan 7:8; 2 Thess. 2:3-8; Rev. 18:1-8; 
19:19-20), who at first will favor Judah but later will turn 
against God’s covenant people after they refuse him blasphem¬ 
ous worship. Then will occur the Battle of Armageddon 
(Mount of Megiddo) in Palestine, when the reunited twelve 
tribes of Israel send up a mighty cry to Almighty God for 
deliverance from the overwhelming hordes of their Satan-led 
adversaries, and Christ returns in great power and glory to 
give them victory and usher in His universal reign of right¬ 
eousness and peace. 

Brothers, listen to this message, 

From the throne of God on high, 

Now the coming of Messiah, 

In His glory draweth nigh: 


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War and earthquake, plague and famine, 
Said Christ Jesus, shall begin 
Tribulation, great unending, 

Till God slays the “Man of Sin.” 

All the signs now flare before us, 

In the earth, air, sky and sea, 

Warning nations of the perils, 

And the sorrows yet to be. 

Not by boasting of our greatness 
On the fields of war or peace 
Shall we conquer Satan’s legions, 

Or our holy joy increase. 

We must bow in deep contrition 
Low before the throne of grace, 

Known transgression all confessing 
Of our Anglo-Saxon race. 

Sins of ignorance, omission, 

And presumption, too, confess, 

That Messiah’s second coming 
We may face with fearlessness. 

Then the greater war impending, 

For the overthrow of Christ, 

Will reveal our colors flying, 

Telling of His sacrifice. 

Telling, too, with joy and gladness 
Of His glory yet to be, 

When on Olivet He standeth, 

Overcomers to set free. 

Free from sin and free from Satan, 

Free from death and free from hell, 

In the Golden Age approaching, 

As the Holy Scriptures tell. 

Brothers, let us sing with triumph 
Of salvation through His blood; 
Boasting not in earthly glory, 

But in meekness doing good. 


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ARE BRITONS TRUE HEBREWS. 

Are *Britons true Hebrews the Israel of old, 

Unto whom God has given, as prophets foretold, 

The fullness of covenant, blessings below, 

His gracious, omnipotent, love did bestow? 

Yes, Britons are Hebrews, lost Ephraim found, 

In whose isles of the west, birthright blessings abound! 
Lost Ephraim’s found! Shout, Judah, for joy, 

Aid every emotion of triumph employ; 

For now we can change our sad garments of fear, 

To brave robes of glory true Israelites wear: 

Lost Ephraim found, our brothers by birth, 

Exalt as free nations encircling the earth. 

Now fewer vile taunts in our teeth will be cast, 

As the ages of scorn go hurrying past; 

For Briton sad Judah’s stern battles will fight, 

And on our dear sons shed prophetical light. 

Shout, Judah, for joy! Thy redemption draws nigh! 
The beauty of blessing is hovering by! 

Within the near future, on Caanan’s fair land, 

In glory triumphant Messiah will stand! 


JESUSALEM IN GOLDEN LIGHT! 

Jerusalem in golden light! 

Fair city of the hills, 

One look at thy beloved walls 
My soul with rapture thrills! 

But oh! grief-tost Jerusalem, 

Once joy of all the earth, 

When will again thy ruined streets 
Resound with Jewish mirth? 

Thy covenants, Jerusalem, 

Foretell the happy day 
When on thy consecrated streets 
Our boys and girls shall play. 

But now, O sad Jerusalem! 

Tears flow from Jewish eyes, 
Because no son of David reigns 
Beneath thy golden skies. 


*And Anglo-Saxon Americans. 







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Thy golden skies, Jerusalem, 

Reflect the promised time 
When peace shall reign in every land, 
And love rule every clime: 

When on Mount Zion’s pleasant hills 
United nations sing, 

“We love thee, dear Jerusalem, 

Fair city of our King!” 


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Chapter VIII 

THE ANGLO-SAXONS AND THE LOST TEN 
TRIBES OF ISRAEL. 

The following correspondence with the President of the 
United States (to whom this chapter in a typewritten, abre- 
viated form was originally sent) and with his cabinet officers, 
will prove an interesting introduction to its prophetic light 
on the international duty of the United States and Great 
Britain in the present perilous days: 

MARK JOHN LEVY, Minister W. H. H. SHELLEY, 

President Secretary and Treasurer 

“In peace the Gentile and the Jew, Phone Franklin 3801 

Assemble in a happy throng, 

Where faces beam with friendship true, Office: 

And Goodwill is the only song” 1824 H Street N. W. 

Christian League of Jewish Friendship 

WASHINGTON, D. C. 

January 1, 1923. 

Hon. Warren G. Harding, 

The White House. 

My Dear Mr. President: 

May I not respectfully call your attention, in the present 
perilous condition of international affairs, to the important 
truth that the two great Anglo-Saxon nations of the United 
States and Great Britain are unconsciously fulfilling the 
prophetic destiny of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, and that 
it is impossible to follow the trend of international events in¬ 
telligently without we take this truth into prayerful consid¬ 
eration. I have endeavored in the enclosed brief typewritten 
statement to set forth its Scriptural setting, and am sending 
same in the hope that you, as the Chief Magistrate of our 
United States which represents Manasseh prophetically, will 
be given thereby clearer light in the administration of your 
presidential duties in international affairs. It is most in¬ 
teresting to note, Mr. President, that the first leader of the 


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tribe of Manasseh bore your own middle name, “Gamaliel the 
son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh” (Num¬ 
ber 7:54-59; 1:10). 

The printed pamphlet enclosed contains my correspondence, 
as an appointed delegate to the American Jewish Congress 
and the Paris Peace Conference, with ex-President Wilson, 
the British Embassy, the Pastors’ Federation of Washington, 
and other representative bodies, regarding the status of He¬ 
brew Christians in Palestine and elsewhere. 

With the assurance, Mr. President, that your administra¬ 
tion has a part constantly in my prayers for Divine guidance; 
and as this is New Year’s Day, the anniversary of the recep¬ 
tion of our Lord Jesus into the Covenant of Abraham, may I 
not wish your family and official circles, in His Name, a most 
happy and prosperous New Year. 

I am, in His and humanity’s service, 

Yours sincerely, 

(Signed) Mark John Levy. 

“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem : they shall prosper that love Thee .”— 
Ps. 122:6. 


DEPARTMENT OF STATE 
Washington 


In reply refer to 

WE 700.00119P81/- January 13, 1923. 

Reverend Mark John Levy, 

Christian League of Jewish Friendship, 

1824 H Street, Northwest, 

Washington, D. C. 

Sir: 

The receipt is acknowledged, by reference from the White 
House, of your communication with which were enclosed a 
typewritten statement and a printed pamphlet bearing the 
caption “Resolutions and Correspondence on Jewish National 
Aspirations and the Promotion of Peace in Palestine.” 

I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, 

For the Secretary of State: 

(Signed) W. R. Castle, Jr., 

Chief , Division of Western European Affairs. 


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 
Washington, D. C. 

AC-HBC. 

153671-4061 

KEM 

February 8, 1923. 

Rev. Mark John Levy, 

1824 H Street, N. W., 

Washington, D. C. 

Sir: 

This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 1st 
instant, enclosing copy of a printed pamphlet entitled 
“Prophetic Light on The International Duty of the United 
States and Great Britain in the Present Perilous Days.” 

This pamphlet has been read and placed in the files of 
this Department. 

Respectfully, 

For the Attorney General, 

(Signed) Albert Ottinger, 

Assistant Attorney General. 


London, March 2, 1923. 

(U. S. Seal) 

Dear Sir: 

The Ambassador asks me to thank you for your communica¬ 
tion of February 19th and for Pastor Levy’s pamphlet, which 
he has read with great interest. 

I am, dear Sir. 

Your obedient servant, 

(Signed) Post Wheeler, 

Counselor of Embassy. 

W. H. H. Shelley, Esq., Secretary , 

Christian League of Jewish Friendship,^ 

1824 H Street, Northwest, 

Washington, D. C. 


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[seal] 

HIGH COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE 
Jerusalem 

13th March, 1923. 

Dear Sir: 

I am directed by His Excellency, the High Commissioner, 
to acknowledge, with an expression of his thanks, your let¬ 
ter of February 8th, enclosing a pamphlet, “Prophetic Light.” 
I have the honour to be, Sir, 

Your obedient servant, 

(Signed) R. Mensht, 

Private Secretary. 

W. H. H. Shelley, Esq., 

Christian League of Jewish Friendship, 

Washington, D. C. 

Acknowledgment of the pamphlet was received, also, from 
the Rt. Hon. Lloyd George, the Govenor General and Prime 
Minister of Canada, several Cabinet Ministers, and other men 
of international influence. 

The following letter refers to questions discussed in this 
and the next two chapters: 

AMERICAN COMMISSION TO NEGOTIATE PEACE 

Paris, January 14th, 1919. 

Sir: 

I am instructed by President Wilson to acknowledge the 
receipt of your letter and the pamphlet which you enclose, 
in which the President was much interested, and wishes to 
assure you that the matter therein discussed is one which will 
be considered in due time by the proper authorities. 

The President wishes me to express his high appreciation 
of the poem of your own composition, which you enclose, and 
w r hich he greatly enjoyed. 

Very truly yours, 

Gilbert Close, Per L. C. 

For the President. 

Mr. Mark John Levy, Washington, D. C., U. S. A. 


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THE ARGUMENT 

The identity of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel with the 
Anglo-Saxons of Great Britain and the United States, is the 
golden key to unlock the door of prophecy to a clear under¬ 
standing of our national duty in present-day happenings at 
Constantinople, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and elsewhere. 

The Ten Tribes were taken captive to Assyria by Shal¬ 
maneser (724 B. C.) one hundred and thirty-seven years 
before Judah was taken captive to Babylon by Nebuchad¬ 
nezzar (587 B. C.), and they never returned as a representa¬ 
tive body to Palestine. They became Lo-ammi (not my 
people), according to God’s prophetic word (Hos. 1:9), and 
led by Dan, the northermost tribe, they gradually wandered 
from Media, by way of the Caucasus mountains, to the west¬ 
ern part of Europe,—Dan as a waymark stamping his name 
(Judg. 18.29) on that continent: Dar-dan-elles, Danube, 
Danaric Alps* Scandinavia, Denmark, London, etc., etc. 
Consonants only are arbitrary in the Hebrew language. 

First from Saxony and later from Normandy, the Ten 
Tribes crossed over to Great Britain, where they have been 
unconsciously fulfilling a remarkable series of prophecies con¬ 
cerning Ephraim and Manasseh foretold by Jacob when he 
blessed the two sons of Joseph, and declared that Ephraim 
should be a nation and a company of nations, namely Great 
Britain and her self-governing colonies; and Manasseh should 
be a great people, namely, the United States (Gen. 48:19). 
The unwisdom of applying these and other prophecies to the 
Jews, as representing the whole twelve-tribed house of Israel, 
has resulted in great spiritual confusion, and is responsible 
for much of the present-day so-called higher criticism of the 
Bible. 

The Jews acknowledge that they represent only two tribes 
and a remnant of all other tribes (Jer. 3:18; Isa. 11:10-13); 
and a careful reading of the fifteenth to the seventeenth 
verses of the thirty-seventh chapter of Ezekiel proves with¬ 
out controversy that, whereas some of all the tribes are in¬ 
cluded amongst the Jews, without the possibility of identifi¬ 
cation except in the case of Levi, the bulk of the ten tribes 


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are still separate from Judah, and have become Gentilized 
(Lo-ammi) nationally; but the unveiling of the prophetic 
word during the past century by those who have patiently 
searched sacred and secular histories for a verification of this 
truth, has caused hundreds of thousands of Anglo-Saxon 
Christians to rejoice in the knowledge of their lineal descent 
from our Father Abraham: “Moreover, thou son of man, take 
one stick and write upon it, for Judah and for the children of 
Israel his companions; and take another stick, and write upon 
it for Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of 
Israel his companions; and join them one to another in one 

stick.” This prophecy is being fulfilled before our eyes as 

* 

Great Britain and Judah are re-occupying Palestine previous 
to the battle of Armageddon (Rev. 16:16), referred to in the 
thirty-eighth chapter of Ezekiel. 

Herein we have two groups of nations pictured as fighting 
against one another: Gog, namely Russia, and Gomer, namely 
Germany, and their allies, against the merchants of Tarshish 
and the young lions thereof, namely Great Britain, her self- 
governing colonies (“the young lions,” v. 13) and the United 
States, and their allies, in the last great war of the Christian 
dispensation, immediately preceding the second coming of 
Christ to begin the Golden Age of one thousand years, when 
the swords will be beaten into ploughshares, the deserts will 
blossom as the rose, and the lions and lambs will feed to¬ 
gether. (Isa. 2:4; 11:6-8; 35:1-8). 

Great Britain has possession already of the Siniatic 
Peninsula, Palestine, and practically all of the Promised Land 
from the Nile to the Euphrates. Her names, too, reveal in 
part the Identity: B’rith is the Hebrew word for covenant; 
Ish is the Hebrew word for man; add “I” to Saxon and we 
have son of Isaac. The Court of Saint James reads Court of 
Saint Jacob in Hebrew. The symbols on the British Royal 
Standard are exclusively Israelitish, namely; the lion of 
Judah; the unicorn (wild ox: Deu. 33-17) of Ephraim; and 
the harp of David; and her national colors, “Red,” “White” 
and “Blue,” with gold occasionally, were four of the five 
prominent colors in the ancient Temple worship. Purple, 


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77 


the fifth or regal color, will be added to the British and all 
other national flags when Christ, the Son of David, returns in 
glory to reign as King of kings and Lord of lords. Judah 
has no red in her flag because the atoning work of the Lord 
Jesus is not acknowledged by the Jews, and no gold because 
of their spiritual rebellion against Christ (Messiah). The 
national colors of the United States are identical with those of 
Great Britain. Our standard is adorned with the “Eagle” 
of Dan; and the “Man” of Ruben is discovered in “John 
Bull’ of England and “LTncle Sam” of the United States. 
The lion, eagle, ox and man were the four faces of the 
Cherubim in the holy of holies, and the symbols on the four 
main standards of Israel, when our fathers marched through 
the wilderness under discipline and victoriously across the 
Jordan (Ex. 25:18; Num. 2:3, 10, 18, 25; Ezek. 1:10), 
typical of Christ, as revealed in the four Gospels, and of the 
four orders of Christian ministry, apostolic, prophetic, 
evangelistic and pastoral (Eph. 4:11-16; Rev. 4:6-8). 

Moreover, two of the significant numerical symbols of 
Israel.are stamped on the birth-history of the United States; 
the thirteen tribes (Jospeh having two tribes: Joshua 14:4) 
corresponding with our original thirteen states; and the num¬ 
erical value of the name of Jesus in Greek is 888, which gives 
us when doubled 1776, the year of our Independency. 
“Thirteen” is the number associated with Christ in His 
humiliation and self-sacrifice, and is linked with Him as 
“Lord,” both in relation to His Deity (Jehovah: 2 x 13), and 
His humanity (Adonai: 5 x 13). And it was the sixty-fifth 
(5 x 13) Congress which self-sacrificingly declared war on 
Germany. The Armistice was signed in the one hundred and 
forty-third (11 x 13) year of our Independency. “Eleven” 
is the numerical symbol of incompleteness in Scripture; and 
the four “elevens,” relating to the hour, the day, the month, 
and the year, associated with the signing of the armistice by 
the United States, prove conclusively that the late war was 
left unfinished; and our part will not be completed until we 
face, in alliance with Great Britain and Judah, the armies 
of the Anti-Christ at the battle of Armageddom (Mount of 


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Slaughter) in Palestine. We discover, too, a significant 
scripture referring to “an hour, and a day, and a month, and 
a year” (Rev. 9:15), when men repent not of their evil deeds, 
just previous to the great battle in spite of God’s sore 
judgments on the earth (vv. 16-21). 

Eleven times thirteen multiplied 
Make one hundred and forty-three— 

All the years, when fully counted, 

Of our Independency. 

Four elevens thus are noted 
In the Armistice’s signing: 

And, as Christians, we should ask, 

Was this not by God’s designing? 

Well we know the Spirit’s number 
Is the Temple-symbol seven; 

But the type of Incompleteness, 

Here revealed, is man’s eleven,— 

Where the hour, day, month and year, 

All combine to certify 

That the war we did not finish 

Draws God’s “Armageddon” nigh. 

Arms of steel will be as playthings 
In that war in Palestine, 

Where Jehovah’s mighty army 
Vict’ry gives by Scriptural* sign,— 

When repentant Judah weeping 
Has her faith in Christ confessed. 

And the Anglo-Saxons (Israel) 

In His righteousness are dressed. 

Furthermore, “thirteen” has been definitely associated on 
several significant occasions with President Wilson, our com¬ 
mander in chief of the late war and most noticeably so when 
the thirteen votes of California gave him victory in his last 
presidential election. “Old Glory” recalls the baptizing of 
the “Red, White and Blue” with the Shekinah when the glory 
of God filled the Tabernacle in the wilderness; and the 

* Joel 2:1-11; Zee. 12:10-14; 14:1-5; Rev. 19:11-16. The scripture references 
in this pamphlet might be extended indefinitely. 




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pyramid on the reverse of our national seal is another link to 
our identity with Manasseh, the thirteenth tribe of Israel, 
whose mother was an Egyptian woman. 

President Harding’s middle name also supplies another link, 
probably prophetic, connecting the United States in these 
momentous days with the tribe of Manasseh; for it was 
“Gamaliel,” the son of Padahzur, who was chosen to lead 
that tribe after the Exodus from Egypt (Numbers 1.10; 
7:54-59). And is it simply a coincidence that when we 
“pray” for the peace of Jer USA lem we pray in the ulti¬ 
mate for the peace of the U. S. A. ? Or that a thin red twine, 
symbolizing the atoning work of Christ, runs through every 
rope of the British navy? No one appears to know the his¬ 
tory of this peculiar custom, so similar in its uniqueness to the 
crowning of British monarchs on the unkingly-like “Stone 
of Destiny,” supposed by many pious Christians to be one of 
Jacob’s pillows, when he saw “the angels of God ascending 
and descending” at Bethel, and the Lord God of our fathers 
confirmed to him the promises made to Abraham and Isaac 
(Gen, 28:10-22). These will be as surely fulfilled in their 
entirety as was the promise to Rahab, an ancestress of our 
Lord Jesus, who bound the “line of scarlet thread” in her 
window for protection when the armies of Israel took Jericho 
(Judg. 2:18). No one who reads the history of the British 
navy will doubt the Lord’s protecting care over it despite 
the sins of so many of Abraham’s Anglo-Saxon posterity. 
He spares our ships, our cities, and our countries, for the 
sake of the righteous who depend solely on the efficacy of 
Christ’s atoning work, symbolized by “the thin red twine” 
and other emblems sacred alike to Jews and Christians. 

The significant fact, too, that practically every great event 
of the War coincided with red-letter days in Jewish history 
more fully set forth in the previous chapter, is another link 
in the chain of evidence proving the Identity, running parallel 
as it does with the focusing of so many lines of prophecy into 
one brilliant rav of fulfillment. The war was commenced 
by the Emperor of Germany on the anniversary of the destruc¬ 
tion of Jerusalem, August 1 , 1914; on the fourth anniversary 


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of this day, lunar time, the allied armies began to beat back 
the Germans at the second battle of the Marne; on Palm 
Sunday, 1917, the American Jews organized their Congress to 
petition the Gentile powers to grant them a safely protected 
homeland in Palestine; on Good Friday, 1917, President 
Wilson declared war on Germany. Solar and lunar time 
coincided on this day, Passover Day falling on Good Friday. 
On the Jewish Feast of Lights (“Dedication’': John 10:22), 
1917, General Allenby took Jerusalem; on the Jewish Feast of 
Pentecost, 1918, the Episcopal Church at Washington, D. C., 
adopted resolutions of sympathy with Jewish national aspira¬ 
tions; and on the Feast of Tabernacles, 1918, General Allenby 
took the upper part of Palestine. 

Truly, it is not by accident that the great events of the 
late war occurred on red-letter days in Judah’s history, and 
that the two great Anglo-Saxon nations exclusively possess 
the symbols and colors bestowed by Almighty God on Israel 
for holy worship and militant service; nor was the sign of 
the Cross accidently made over the heads of Ephraim and 
Manasseh when our father Jacob crossed his hands when 
blessing them in Egypt for prophetic light on our present- 
day destiny and duty (Gen. 48:13, 14). The ten-tribed 
house of Israel is mentioned first in Jeremiah’s great proph¬ 
ecy, “Behold the days come, saitli the Lord, that I will make 
(Hebrew: cut, implying the shedding of blood) a new coven¬ 
ant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah” 
(Jer. 31:31). Careful reading shows that the first part of 
this chapter refers exclusively to “Ephraim my first-born” 
(v. 9) ; and we are commanded in verse seven to “Sing with 
gladness for Jacob among the chief of the nations.” This 
cannot refer to Judah in her despised exile; nor can the fol¬ 
lowing prophecies which the ten-tribed house of Israel, rep¬ 
resented by their Anglo-Saxon descendants, are evidently 
fulfilling: “Let them give glory to God, and declare his 
praise in the islands” (Isa. 42:12); “the isles shall wait for 
his law” (Isa. 42:4); “hear the word of the Lord, O ye na¬ 
tions, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that 
scattered Israel shall gather him and keep him as a shepherd 


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doth his flock” (Jer. 31:10); and similar texts, as “Let thy 
seed possess the gate of those which hate thee” (Gen. 24:60). 
Great Britain and the United States possess the “gate” of 
practically every enemy, namely Gilbraltar, Malta, Cyprus, 
the Suez Canal, Aden, Ceylon, Hong Kong, India, Australia, 
Cape of Good Hope, West Indies Philippines, Samoa, Hawaii 
Island, Porto Rico, etc., etc., and Constantinople is now 
coming under the control of the two great Anglo-Saxon 
maritime nations. Their own gates have been open hitherto 
to the oppressed of all lands, as is implied in the millennial 
prophecy (Isa. 60:11). 

Israel was forbidden to take “usury” from brethren (Ex. 
22:25; Deu. 23:19) and was to “lend to many nations and 
not to borrow” (Deut. 15:6). The Anglo-Saxons borrow of 
one another; lend to all nations, and borrow from none. The 
seed of Abraham was to become a vast multitude, after they 
had become Gentilized (Gen. 22:17; Hosea 1:10) and the 
“stranger” who joined Israel was to be as the “homeborn” 
(Exod. 12:49). They were to “push the people together to 
the ends of the earth” (Deut. 33:17), a prophecy that cannot 
possibly apply to Judah, either now or after her restoration 
to Palestine. They were to be in “the midst of many people 
as a dew from the Lord” (Micah 5:7), —exclusively true of 
the “missionary remnant” of the ten tribes. They were to 
by superabundantly blessed in cattle, fish, corn, fruit, and in 
mines of gold, silver, tin, coal, precious stones, oil wells, 
etc., etc. (Gen. 49:22-26; Deut. 33:13-16), blessings possessed 
by the Anglo-Saxons in a ten-fold degree above other nations. 
And they were to be a Sabbath-keeping people (Ezek. 31:13), 
a prophecy fulfilled primarily by orthodox Jews and orthodox 
Anglo-Saxon Christians. And, sad to relate, the pronounced 
vice of Ephraim, drunkeness (Isa. 28:1); and a difficulty 
in pronouncing “h” (Judg. 12:6) still cling to his posterity. 

Therefore, it is evident that no Bible study is more im¬ 
portant for right understanding of present-day world condi¬ 
tions in the light of prophecy than that which proclaims the 
identity of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel with the two great 
Anglo-Saxon nations of Great Britain and the United States; 


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and it demands a unity of action on their part similar to that 
which brought the last war to an untimely end. The joy of 
this knowledge of the Identity gave birth to the following 
song, as a spiritual interpretation of our United States “Stars 
and Stripes/' and in a lesser degree of the “Union Jack" 
(three crosses) of Great Britain: 

1 

O Flag of the States 
What speakest thou of? 

True worshippers know,— 

Of heavenly love: 

The Stripes are for service, 

The Stars for reward. 

As brilliantly shown 
In the life of our Lord. 

2 

The red, white and blue, 

With gold on the edge, 

True Temple colors, 

Are God’s faithful pledge 
Of favor in worship, 

And ministry, too, 

When loyally waved 
By the Gentile or Jew. 

3 

The lion and ox. 

The eagle and man, 

On cherubim seen. 

Were seen in the van 
Of Israel’s brave armies 
When Jordan was crossed, 

And now are discovered 
In tribes that were lost 

4 

The “lion” and “ox” 

The British possess. 

The States has the “eagle” 

Her armies to bless: 

And England’s John Bull, 

A symbol of power, 

By Uncle Sam joined 
Is “man” of the hour. 


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5 

“Thirteen,” the number 
Of Israel’s full tribes. 

Our flag-field for blessing 
At birth-time describes. 

And thirteen, Christ’s symbol 
Of self-sacrifice, 

Reveals where the beauty 
Of liberty lies. 

6 

Old Glory in war 
Has known no defeat: 

When blest for the battle 
At God’s mercy seat, 

We backward the foes 
Of humanity hurled, 

With colors and symbols 
Of freedom unfurled. 

7 

The “gold” is a type 
Of unalloyed truth, 

To strengthen the heart 
Of warrior youth. 

The “red” speaks of sin 
And the blood of relief, 

Outpoured by the Christians’ 
Commander-in-Chief. 

8 

The “white,” like His life, 

Of purity tells, 

The “blue” of His rising 
To heavenly bells; 

And joyous in worship, 

And training and fight 
We wave His bright colors 
Of glory and might. 

Note: Literature on the “Identity,” from the pen of pious and 
learned men, dealing with every phase of the subject from the philo¬ 
logical, ethnological, archaeological and scriptural standpoints, can 
be obtained from the editors of “The Banner of Israel,” or of its 
publishers, Marshall Brothers, Ltd., 2 Crane Court, Fleet Street, E. 


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C., London, England; or from the Editors of “The National Mes¬ 
sage,” or its publishers, the Covenant Publishing Company, Ltd., 14 
Fetter Lane, E. C., London, England. 

GOD OF LOVE 

God of Love, we plead with Thee 
For Thy peeled and scattered race, 

Who await the ancient joy 
In the smiling of Thy face: 

Mercy show to Judah now, 

As we at Thy footstool bow! 

When of old the idols fell, 

Zion’s loyal sons intoned 
Gladly, in the Temple courts, 

Songs that Israel meekly owned 
Winged the Truth the sages taught, 

Who for King Immanuel wrought. 

Let the truth be winged again 
To the scattered race afar, 

As they gather to the Land 
Where our fallen cities are: 

Then from all their unbelief, 

Give, O God of Love, relief! 

Songs will then from Zion’s sons 
Greet the Gentile neighbours nigh, 

As they hail the Prince of Peace, 

Coming with the saints on high, 

Son of God, beloved, renowned, 

King of Israel to be crowned. 

King of kings and Lord of lords, 

Then will be His title, too: 

For He will Edenic joy 
Through the universe renew; 

And all nations then will bow 
To the Christ we worship now! 


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Chapter IX. 

CHRISTIAN MISTREATMENT OF JEWS AND 
JEWISH MISJUDGMENT OF CHRIST. 

The Jews religiously are divided into three main groups: 
(1) The Talmudical, who resemble the Roman Catholics in 
their adherence to tradition and their reverence for the rab¬ 
binate; (2) The Mosaical, who go more directly to the Old 
Testament for guidance and are the Protestants of Jewry; 
(3) The Reform Jews, who reject the orthodox teaching of 
a personal Messiah and the regathering of our nation to 
Palestine, and correspond in religious doctrine to the Gentile 
Unitarians. All the groups co-operate more or less in na¬ 
tional and philanthropic activities and act as a unit in their 
intense opposition to any active religious propaganda amongst 
our own people by Jews or Gentiles who have accepted the 
Davidic descent and the sacrificial life, death and resurrec¬ 
tion of Jesus Christ. And no propaganda in humanity’s 
history could possibly be more unfair than that of the Jews 
against loyal-hearted Christians who, in loving obedience to 
the Lord God of Israel, proclaim the truth in Jewry that 
Jesus is the Messiah whom orthodox Jews daily expect, and 
the One (Christ) for whose Second Advent orthodox Chris¬ 
tians are daily waiting. 

Therefore in Gospel approach to our Jewish brethren we 
must remember their religious unfairness and diversity of out¬ 
look, and study deeply the five main reasons why more of 
them do not come to a knowledge and open confession of 
faith in our Lord Jesus, namely, (1) Their own self-righ¬ 
teousness: “They being ignorant of God’s righteousness, 

and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not 
submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God’’ (Rom. 
10:3); (2) the failure of the Church to send qualified mis¬ 
sionaries to them: “How then shall they call on him in whom 
they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of 


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whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear with¬ 
out a preacher? And how shall they preach except they be 
sent” (Rom. 10:41,15); (3) the unholy prejudice of multi¬ 
tudes of professing Christians against these sons of the 
patriarchs, despite the warning, “Boast not the branch. But 
if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee” 
(Rom. 11:18); (4) the mystery of the judicial blindness 
pronounced on them by Almighty God for the sake of the 
Gentiles: “I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant 
of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits; that 
blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of 
the Gentiles be come in” (Rom. 11:25); (5) the unscriptural 
teaching of the Church since the Council of Nicea (A. D. 
325), that Jews who accept Jesus as the Messiah must neces¬ 
sarily forsake the national and social customs of Israel after 
they are baptized,—Christendom’s greatest wrong against 
Judah, which is dealt with in the next chapter. 

The unjust opinion appears widespread among Christians 
that Israel of old had but little thought for the salvation 
of the Gentiles. St. Paul clearly proves that the loyal sons 
of Israel, throughout the ages, had a vision of the time when 
all nations would rejoice in our Triune God and sing unto 
His name, by quoting four times from the three main divi- 
sons of the Old Testament, the Law, the Psalms and the 
Prophets, to this effect in Romans 15:9-12: Once from the 
deathsong of Moses (Deut. 32:43); twice from the Psalms 
(Psalms 18:19; 117:1; the latter the middle and shortest 
chapter of the Bible, its two verses beginning and ending 
with “Hallelujah,” and calling upon Israel and all the na¬ 
tions to “praise the Lord”); and once from Israel’s great 
restoration chapter (Isaiah 11:1, 10). 

The author was some years ago in a city where the serious 
dispute in a State University, referred to more fully below, 
was in progress between the Jewish and Gentile students. 
An eminent preacher was in the city expounding the Epistle 
to the Romans to thousands of Christians. Night after night 
he progressed from the first to the eighth chapters, skipped 
over with one sentence, the ninth, tenth and eleventh chapters, 


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St. Paul’s great plea to the Gentiles to show mercy to Israel, 
and continued his argument with the twelfth chapter, wherein 
the apostle beseeches us to present our bodies “a living sacri¬ 
fice, holy, acceptable unto God” (verse 1). It was not by ac¬ 
cident that St. Paul broke off his main argument at the end 
of the eighth chapter to write his great missionary plea for 
his own beloved people, immediately before beseeching Gentile 
Christians to present their bodies a living sacrifice, holy, ac¬ 
ceptable unto God; but seemingly, the preacher did not realize 
that his hearers could not obey this command of the Lord 
until they had victory over the most prevalent and persistent 
sin which Gentile Christians have to face, namely, their in¬ 
herited aversion to the children of the ancient race to whose 
faithful forefathers they owe the joy of salvation; for Christ 
Himself declared “Salvation is of the Jews” (John 4:22). I 
pleaded by voice and pen with this eloquent minister of the 
Gospel to warn his hearers of their ingratitude to the race to 
which they spiritually owe so much, but failed to move him to 
his providential duty in a city of youthful Jewish and Gentile 
discord. Finally, I addressed to him the following lines: 

Thy lips are wet with waters sweet 
Which flow from Jewish springs; 

But what sweet word from off thy lips 
For Judah takes the wings? 

Thy themes aflame with Pauline fire 
Set Gentile hearts aglow; 

But what of Paul’s warm-hearted love 
For Judah dost thou show? 

Thy Salem-worded songs of joy 
Tune Christian harps anew; 

But what care ye that David’s lyre 
Is silent for the Jew? 

Ah yes! as to Gerezim’s mount 
For blessing Gentiles come, 

Who sorrow not that Ebal’s curse 
Expels the Jew from home. 

O friend, beware lest Balaam’s blight 
Fall on thy Christian heart,— 

Thou art too strong in Jewish faith 
To play the Ingrate’s part. 


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Our people are a unit in their belief that Christians have 
no true love for them. They assume unwittingly, too, that all 
Gentiles are Christians; and devout Christians themselves 
all too seldom let their light shine in Jewish circles. More¬ 
over, because of the universal prejudice which they have to 
face from childhood, even in our Anglo-Saxon lands, a bitter 
prejudice springs up in the heart of a majority of the Jew T s 
toward our Lord Jesus, Whom they ignorantly charge with 
being the author of their misfortunes. 

When the Christian nurses in our Jewish home sang the 
lullaby, “Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, look upon a little 
child” my heart went out to Him in love as to a good man who 
loved little children; but when I was taunted on our *English 
streets by strange boys and my parents consoled me by saying, 
“They are Christian boys and do not love the Jews,” my love 
for Jesus turned to hatred. Was I to blame for the cowardice 
of those Gentile boys or the ignorance of my Jewish parents 
concerning the life and true character of our compassionate 
Saviour ? 

On one occasion I asked a little Gentile girl in a Jewish 
store at Boston, “Are you a Christian?” “Yes,” she replied. 
“Do you love our Lord?” I asked. “Yes,” she again answered. 
“Do you love the Jews?” I then inquired. “No,” she replied 
quickly. “But,” said I, “Our Lord was a Jew.” “Oh no, He 
wasn’t,” she instantly responded. “Ask these Jewish men,” 
I then said. They all answered “Yes.” With a stamp of her 
little foot she insisted, “I know He wasn’t.” At that moment 
two other little girls entered the store; she rushed up to them 
and loudly asked, “Was our Lord a Jew?” “No,” they in¬ 
stantly replied. She returned to me and passionately cried, 
“I knew He wasn’t; I love our Lord! I hate the Jews!” 
Her voice rang so clear and true that my heart went out to 
the little thing, but my spirit moaned at this mingling of love 
for Christ with hatred for the Jews. Were these three Roman 
Catholic children to blame for their inherited ignorance of 
Christ’s Jewish descent and their hatred of His blood- 
brothers ? 


* The author is now a citizen of the United States. 




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I related the above experience in one of the Protestant mis¬ 
sions at Boston and the superintendent immediately arose and 
said, In my home the children have not been taught to dis¬ 
like the Jews, but I recently sent my youngest boy to Sunday- 
school ; after a few Sundays he looked up into my face and 
enquired: “Daddy, was Jesus a Sheeny?” and the father 
said, ‘I shall never forget the look that was on the child’s 
face. Was this little Protestant boy to blame because he 
unconsciously drank in the prejudice toward the Jews which 
only too often poisons the atmosphere even of our Sunday- 
schools ? 

In a certain university a dispute arose between the Jewish 
and Gentile students. The Junior “prom” (annual dance) 
was arranged at a club where every proposed Jewish member 
had been systematically blackballed. The Jewish students 
declared that they would not attend and the newspapers were 
filled with accounts of the dispute. It w T as my privilege to 
address each group of students separately, and I endeavored 
to get a celebrated visiting minister of the Gospel to throw 
oil on the troubled waters but did not succeed. On the fol¬ 
lowing Saturday I attended the Synagogue and listened to a 
judicial sermon on the dispute by the rabbi, who counselled 
the Jewish students to avoid prejudice and be peaceable, and 
he justly commended their stand in the matter. After the 
service I went forward to thank the rabbi for the sermon and 
he publicly, before his own words advocating tolerance had 
grown cold upon his lips, gave a violent exhibition of prejudice 
toward his Jewish Christian brother, who in the unfortunate 
dispute had acted as a peacemaker. 

That same day I wrote the rabbi a letter of reproof, ad¬ 
monishing him to practice what he preached, and declaring my 
willingness to meet him again. No reply was received; so I 
called him on the telephone in a few days and again expressed 
my desire to meet him. “What for,” he enquired. “Because 
I am a Jew,” I replied. “But you are no longer a Jew,” he 
said. “Yes, like Jesus and Paul,” I said. “Oh!” he ex¬ 
claimed sarcastically. Finally he consented to meet me and 
on the Friday evening I proceeded to his synagogue study. 


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He received me courteously and when we were seated, I asked 
him to read the following lines in order that he might under¬ 
stand how a Jew who believes in Jesus feels when received 
as he had received me on the previous Saturday: 

A rabbi on prejudice preached, 

With the glow of the soul of a Jew, 

And then, with love’s message caressing his lips, 

The sword-stick of prejudice drew. 

He lamented the Gentiles’ contempt, 

Pouring oil on the wounds of his race; 

And then, like the man with a mote in his eye, 

Insulted a Jew to his face. 

The rabbi read the lines with a half-smile, confessed his 
fault, and w r e continued in conversation for about three 
quarters of an hour. I was thus enabled to fulfil my mission 
and give him a clear testimony of my faith in Jesus, and we 
have met in friendly conversation since. 

Truly, in this age-long controversy the Jews are to blame 
for not studying the true story of Jesus Christ as related in 
the New Testament. Christians are to blame for their in¬ 
exactness in teaching the truth and their lack of loyalty to our 
Lord. And above all, Satan, the father of lies, is to blame for 
confusing the truth in the minds of the Jews, the Gentiles 
and the Church of God. 

“I LOVE OUR LORD! I HATE THE JEWS!!” 

“I love our Lord! I hate the Jews!!” 

A Roman Catholic maiden cried, 

Who knew not Christ was born a Jew, 

Or as the King of Jewry died! 

“I love our Lord!” her voice rang clear, 

And thrilled me with its gladsome tone! 

“I hate the Jews!!” her words were fierce, 

And made my Jewish spirit moan. 

O little maid, who taught thee thus 
Christ-love with Jewish hate to mix? 

Our Hebrew, Greek and Roman sins 
Gave Christendom its crucifix! 


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THE KING OF THE JEWS, WITH A SCAR ON EACH HAND 

“I was cheated one day of thirty odd cents 
By a Jew in a bargain store, 

And why should I care though he hurries to hell, 

While I haste to the heavenly shore? 

But hearken, O friend, on your heavenward march, 

To a Jew on the same highway, 

Who sorrows, and prays, and pleads for the Jew 
Who hurries to hell today! 

Will you pit your scorn against thirty odd cents, 

When the King of the Jews you meet,— 

The King of the Jews, with a scar on each hand. 

And the print of the nails in His feet? 


TRUE ZIONISM 

Hark! hark! a moan of pain 
Is in the Eastern gale: 

It floats across the main 
Where sons of Judah sail 
Toward the Holy Land afar, 

Bright homeland of the Morning Star. 

O Christian! hearest thou? 

And hearing, heedest not? 

Awake to pity now, 

Lest mercy be forgot. 

Oh, heed a nation’s cry of pain, 

And speed it to its home again! 

O purse-proud Jew, be wise! 

Curst is thy love of gold!! 

Thy sin-deluded eyes, 

Blind to the Truth retold 
From age to age for centuries past, 

To heavenly light oh turn at last! 

Think not the western lands 
Will ever welcome thee: 

The spoilers’ bloody hands, 

Made fierce by jealousy, 

In chastisement God still will use 
If His salvation ye refuse. 



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Meek sons of Judah know, 

Through wisdom’s light of love, 
Why age on age of woe 

Sin’s curse can ne’er remove: 
Messiah’s death upon the tree 
Unmourned compelleth misery! 

Come! come! Lord Jesus, come! 

King David’s throne ascend! 

Not Israel gathered home 
With Jacob’s trouble end: 

Fierce warfare at Jerusalem 
Awaits rebellious sons of Shem! 

When man from wife apart 

The tribes their crime shall own, 
As smitten to the heart 

The Son of God they mourn, 
Within the homeland God will pour 
His Spirit on our race once more. 

Then to the homeland go, 

“Tribes of the wand’ring feet,” 
Where as thy tears shall flow 
Before the mercy-seat, 

The Lamb of God, once slain for sin. 
As King of Glory will come in! 


ALL ERROR WE DEPLORE 

“God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the 
wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to con¬ 
found the things that are mighty; and base things of the world, 
and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things 
which are not, to bring to naught things that are. That no flesh 
should glory in his presence” (1 Cor. 1:27-29). 

The blood of Christ alone 
Can cleanse the soul from sin; 

It doth for me atone. 

And Jew and Gentile win. 

O God! forgive our faithlessness, 

And through Thy Word the nations bless. 



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A Catholic I am, 

Not Roman, no, or Greek! 

I am no son of Ham, * 

But as a Jew I speak; 

A Hebrew Catholic am I,— 

The Word of God will tell you why. 

Born in a Jewish home, 

The Lord of Life I sought, 

Whose tender voice said “Come! 

I have salvation brought.” 

Then Jesus Christ became my Friend; 

And for His Kingdom I contend. 

When baptized in the faith, 

A Hebrew I remained, 

And wandered as a waif, 

By Gentile sects disdained, 

Because I taught the Christian Jew 
To scattered Judah to be true. 

The Gentile churches claim 
Against God’s Holy Writ, 

In Babylonish shame, 

Because in fragments split, 

That Jews who love the Jewish King, 

Must not as Jews of Jesus sing. 

“Sauce for the goose,” we read, 

“Is for the gander, too;” 

And love the Gentiles need, 

Is needed by the Jew; 

But love in Christ is never free, 

That blooms on a sectarian tree! 

One faith, one hope, one Lord, 

The Holy Scriptures teach, 

And in the love of God, 

One brotherhood we preach; 

We must not judge in tribal ways, 

In meats or drinks or Sabbath days. 

* A colored brother preached shoulder to shoulder with the 
author on the occasion of the writing of this song. Catholicity of 
spirit embraces in fellowship every true child of God, redeemed 
by the precious blood of Jesus Christ, irrespective of race, color 
or creed. 



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A Roman saint, whole-souled, 

Brings gladness to my heart; 

A Hebrew Christian cold, 

Bids racial joy depart; 

I love the Protestant and Greek, 

And would the good of all men seek. 

True worshippers unfold 

Good doctrine in good deeds; 

And ancient churches hold 
The wisdom of the creeds; 

Good deeds and doctrine are denied, 

When we the Christian Church divide. 

All error we deplore, 

Of sect or Papal tone; 

All truth we would restore, 

In friendship or alone. 

Faith, hope and love, oh give us, Lord! 

To teach the nations through Thy Word. 


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Chapter X 

CHRISTENDOM’S GREATEST WRONG AGAINST 

JUDAH. 

Although this chapter is a severe arraignment of Gen¬ 
tile Christians for their Gentilizing of Jewish Christians 
and their selfish absorption of the culture, wealth and spiritual 
force of Hebrew Christianity into the Gentile branches of 
Christ’s Church for more than a thousand years; and a 
severe condemnation of Hebrew Christians who condone this 
terrible wrong against Judah’s spiritual welfare, yet I earn¬ 
estly ask all my readers to believe that I write as a Hebrew 
over whose soul there has never passed a conscious shadow 
of prejudice toward the Gentiles as races or nations. As 
one of a family of nineteen brothers and sisters my childhood 
was controlled by kindly Gentile nurses; my boyhood was 
passed almost exclusively in Gentile schools; my father left 
a Jew and a Gentile the executors of his will; three of my 
brothers married Gentile brides; and the majority of my best 
friends during a long itinerant ministry have been unpre¬ 
judiced Gentile Christians. 

But as one who mourns over and condemns his own sins 
and errors, I must mourn over and condemn the sins and 
errors of my Jewish and Gentile fellow-men; and especially 
do I grieve over and seek to remedy the Gentile error which 
has led to the greatest wrong of the Christian Era and done 
more to turn Judah against our compassionate Messiah than 
all the physical persecutions of Israel’s long exile, and which 
places the Christian Jew in a position of national traitor- 
ship, often unconscious, with disastrous spiritual results to 
all Jewry. An error which declares that the Christian Jews 
must eat food Judah accounts unclean to prove he is spiritu¬ 
ally clean through the blood of Messiah, who never ate pork, 
and which insists that he must refrain from signing his 
children with the Abrahamic seal of faith to prove his faith in 


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Messiah, who was circumcised. A Gentile error which con¬ 
demns the Christian Jew who celebrates Israel’s national day 
of Independence in his father’s home and is thereby enabled 
to unfold the anti-typical spiritual emancipation revealed in 
the Paschal feast with a joy unknown to Gentiles who con¬ 
demn him, even though they do rejoice in *St. George’s, St. 
David’s, St. Andrew’s, St. Patrick’s, Independence or other 
Gentile national days. An error which forbids the Jew in 
Christ to commemorate even in thought the giving of the Law 
on Mt. Sinai, although the New Testament distinctly states 
that the Law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ 
(Gal. 3:24). A Gentile error which declares that it is wrong 
for the Christian Jew to wish his parents a happy New Year 
on the Feast of Trumpets, even though he explains to them 
that the feast is typical of the Eternal New Year to all whose 
names are written in the “Book of Life;” and an error which 
proclaims that he must not fast on the Day of Atonement or 
rejoice on the Feast of Tabernacles in the dear home circle, 
even though his sole object in thus putting himself “under 
the law, to those who are under the Law” (1 Cor. 9:20), is 
to reveal to his kindred the Lamb of God which taketh away 
the sin of the world, and to tell them of the boundless 
spiritual harvest the Son of David will gather at the great 
anti-typical Feast of Tabernacles. Ah, yes! a long-con¬ 
tinued error which blinds the eyes of Christians to the 
apostolic truth that it is as great a wrong for the Gentiles to 
Gentilize the Jews as it is for the Jews to Judaize the Gentiles. 

Many years ago I poured out my heart to the Lord on 
this question and wrote: 

MUST Israel eat the flesh of swine 
Because, Lord Jesus, we are thine? 

Must we the seal of faith forego 
Because Thy love the Gentiles know? 

MUST we refuse unleavened bread 
Because Thy Paschal Blood was shed? 

MUST holy Pentecostal roots 
Produce for kindred bitter fruits? 

*The Anglo-Saxon descendants of Abraham are still prophetically 
Gentilized. 




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97 


With praise to God must we not bring 
The Tabernacle harvesting; 

Or fast on the Atonement Day, 

Because our sins are washed away? 

MUST we Mosaic law’s despise 
Because God’s Spirit makes us wise? 

To see in Thee the Anti-type, 

When for this blessing faith is ripe. 

No! No! O Christ, true light w r e see; 

Salvation leaves the Hebrew free 
To keep the Law that love may win, 

Our Kinsmen from the ranks of sin. 

The Argument 

When the Emperor Constantine, who hated the Jews, in¬ 
duced the Council of Nicea (A. D. 325) to change the date 
of Easter, and thus disrupt the coincidence of the Jewish and 
the Christian religious calendars, a wrong was done to Jew 
and Gentile, the evil of which God Almighty alone can 
measure. Thereafter practically all Messianic truth was 
suppressed by the Synagogue, and practically all prophetic 
truth was divorced from the Church; and the illustrative 
spiritual light revealed in the ancient feasts and God-given 
rites of Israel grew dimmer and dimmer until the revival 
of Bible study after the Reformation rescued in part truth 
after truth from the darkness of medieval error. But the 
error that has proved so disastrous to the spiritual welfare 
of the Jews, and brought so much social and national suffer¬ 
ing to loyal Hebrew Christians, no branch of Christ’s Church 
has sought seriously to remedy. 

Until the Council of Nicea there were, broadly speaking, 
three main groups of religious Jews: (1) Those who did not 
consider or accept the claims of Christ to the Messiahship, 
corresponding to the orthodox Jews of today, who seldom 
read the New Testament; (2) those who read the New 
Testament and accepted Christ as the most glorious example 
of human manhood, known in the early Christian centuries 
as the Ebionites, and who correspond to the Reform Jews of 


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today; (3) the loyal Hebrew Christians, who accepted Christ 
as the Messiah and relied solely on His supernatural birth, 
holy life, sacrificial death and resurrection, as their only hope 
of eternal salvation, and who continued the national worship 
of Israel in family, synagogue and Temple life, like James, 
the brother of our Lord, who presided at the Council of 
Jerusalem, Peter, and all the elders and tens of thousands 
(Greek: myriads) of loyal Hebrew Christians referred to in 
Acts 21:17-26, who circumcised their children and were 
zealots of the law,—favorably known in the primitive Church 
as the Nazarenes. To this loyal Hebrew national branch oi 
the Church Universal the first fifteen Jewish bishops of Jeru¬ 
salem undoubtedly belonged; but in the Church of Christ 
today we have no corresponding group, because for centuries 
the Gentile branches of the Church, by absorbing the Hebrew 
Christians and thus withdrawing practically all Gospel light 
from Jewry, have skimmed the cream from the spiritual milk 
pails of Judah and robbed our people of the richest, purest, 
sweetest nourishment the Lord has provided for universal 
social, national and religious life. Hebrew Christians who 
deliberately condone this wrong commit an act of unparalleled 
disloyalty to their race and place millions of their unconverted 
blood-brothers in the peril of eternal damnation. To continue 
the terrible wrong in the clear light of scripture is unpardon¬ 
able on the part of a Bible-loving Jewish or Gentile mis¬ 
sionary to the Jews. 

When the Hebrew apostles at the Council of Jerusalem pro¬ 
claimed freedom to Gentile Christians in national and social 
customs they did not intend, either then or in future days, 
to sacrifice their own freedom. A careful reading of Acts 
15: 9-21 and 21:17-26 proves that the loyal Hebrew Christian 
position was fully considered and rightly understood and 
protected in the primitive Church, which consisted of national 
branches, just as truly as the historic churches today ac¬ 
knowledge the Anglican, Greek, Roman, Abysinnian and other 
Gentile branches of the “One, Holy Catholic and Apostolic 
Church, whilst sometimes denying with the same breath the 


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right of loyal Hebrew Christians to revive their branch of the 
Church Universal. 

In countries nominally Christian the term “Gentile” has 
been dropped from common speech, and current opinion de¬ 
clares that a man is either a good or a bad Jew, or a good or 
a bad Christian. But the Holy Scriptures affix the title Gen¬ 
tile to the non-Jewish followers of our Lord Jesus; and the 
writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews evidently distinguished 
between the Jewish and Gentile branches of Christ’s Church. 
And did not St. Paul, many years after his conversion, de¬ 
clare himself a “Jew” (Acts 22:3) and in the same chapter 
assert his Roman citizenship? Yet in other scriptures he 
declares that his citizenship is in heaven and that he has set 
his affection on things above. In his loyalty to Christ he did 
not despise his Jewish birthright or under-value his position 
as a free-born Roman but used them to the glory of God 
and in the eternal interest of his fellow-men. When he wrote, 
“In Christ Jesus there is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor 
free, male nor female,” (Gal. 3:28) he was referring to the 
spiritual tie and no more intended to un-Jew the Jew than he 
did to unsex the Gentitle. He mentions “All the churches of 
the Gentiles” (Rom. 16:4), and proclaims himself a “Hebrew 
of the Hebrews,” (Phil. 3:5). He circumcises Timothy, 
(Acts 16:3) and protests against Gentile Christians sub¬ 
mitting to this rite (Gal. 2:3-7). He shaved his head (Acts 
18:18) and declared near the end of his long life that he 
had “done nothing against the people or the customs of the 
fathers” (Acts 28:17). He kept vows, proved false the 
charges that he had taught the Jews amongst the Gentiles to 
forsake Moses, and wrote to the Corinthian, “Unto the Jews I 
become as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; as under the 
law to those that are under the law, not being myself under 
the law, that I might gain those that are under the law” (1 
Cor. 9:20). The bitter persecution Paul encountered arose 
chiefly from his unprejudiced love and friendship for the 
Gentiles, a position long misunderstood by his fellow apostles 
and impossible of comprehension by his non-Christian Jewish 
brethren. 



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But what a contrast this Jewish Apostle to the Gentiles, 
who was willing to be accursed from Christ for his Brethren’s 
sake, (Rom. 9:1-5) presents to the vast majority of Hebrew 
Christians of modern days, who through the influence of 
prejudiced, worldly or sectarian Gentile brethren, or through 
their own selfish inclinations or national disloyalty, are will¬ 
ing to let their racial brothers continue in the eternal peril 
of unbelief without uttering a word of protest to the Church 
or a note of warning to the Synagogue when in all lands the 
Synagogue is saying to the Jews, “Be loyal to Judah, but 
have nothing to do with Christ, who is not the Son of God;” 
and the Church is answering, “Nay! be loyal to Christ, who 
is the Son of God, but have nothing to do with the national 
rites and ceremonies of Israel.” And the loyal Hebrew 
Christian who refuses to obey the unscriptural teaching of 
the Church on the one hand or the unbelief of the Synagogue 
on the other, finds Jewish hearts and homes closed to him 
because of his loyalty to Christ, and Gentile hearts and 
homes closed to him because of his loyalty to Judah; and, 
sad to relate, many missionaries to the Jews add persecution 
to ostracism, because of this double-edged loyalty. 

SOMETIMES GENTILE CHRISTIANS SAY TO ME, 
“WE ARE GLAD YOU CAME OVER TO US.” “NO,” 
IS MY REPLY, “YOU CAME OVER TO US. GOD 
MADE THE NEW COVENANT, UNDER WHICH WE 
WORSHIP, WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND THE 
HOUSE OF JUDAH, (JER. 31:31; HEB. 8:8); WE ARE 
CONTINUING, THEREFORE, THE WORSHIP OF 
ISRAEL; AND I HAVE NOT FORSAKEN THE WOR¬ 
SHIP OF OUR FATHER, AS SOME RABBIS ASSERT.” 
NOR DO I ESTEEM ONE GENTILE NATIONAL 
BRANCH OF THE CHURCH ABOVE ANOTHER, EX¬ 
CEPT AS IT IS MORE LOYAL TO “ALL THE COUN¬ 
CIL OF GOD” (ACTS 20:27); NOR DO I CONDONE 
“THE HUNDRED AND ONE” (ABOUT 400) SECTA¬ 
RIAN DIVISIONS IN CHRISTENDOM. THESE DE¬ 
PLORABLE SECTARIAN DIVISIONS PRESENT AN 
ALMOST UNBEARABLE BURDEN TO MULTITUDE 


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NOUS GENTILE FOLLOWERS OF OUR LORD. WHAT 
THEN MUST THEY BE TO HIS COMPARATIVELY 
FEW JEWISH FOLLOWERS ALREADY OVERBUR¬ 
DENED BY SORROWFUL SEPARATION FROM 
FAMILY TIES AND FORMER RELIGIOUS FRIEND¬ 
SHIPS? TRULY THE HEBREW CHRISTIANS SUF¬ 
FER MOST FROM THESE MULTIPLIED SECTARIAN 
DIVISIONS, THE LOGICAL OUTCOME OF DIVORC¬ 
ING SO MUCH JEWISH LEARNING FROM CHRIS¬ 
TIAN TEACPIING. NINETEEN GENTILE DENOMI¬ 
NATIONS WERE REPRESENTED BY THIRTY HE¬ 
BREW CHRISTIAN MINISTERS AND MISSIONARIES 
AT THE FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN NEW 
YORK EIGHT YEARS AGO OF THE HEBREW 
CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE OF AMERICA; AND AT A 
HEBREW CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE HELD AT 
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK, MARYLAND, ABOUT TEN 
YEARS EARLIER, WE DISCOVERED AFTER ELECT¬ 
ING OUR PRESIDENT AND OUR SECRETARY THAT 
NEITHER THE ONE NOR THE OTHER WOULD 
PARTICIPATE IN THE LORD’S SUPPER (HOLY 
COMMUNION) BECAUSE OF THEIR GENTILE 
SYNODICAL PROHIBITIONS. FORGETTING THE 
JEWISH PROVERB, “ALL ISRAEL ARE BRETHREN,” 
HEBREW CHRISTIANS FAR TOO OFTEN NARROW 
DOWN CHRISTIAN LOVE TO THE PREVAILING 
SECTARIAN LOVE; AND UNDER THE SPELL OF 
GENTILE SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP, ECCLESIASTICAL 
HONOR OR FINANCIAL FAVOR, TFIEY BECOME 
UNMINDFUL OF OUR LORD’S ADMONITION WHEN 
HE REBUKED THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES AND 
SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, “BE YE NOT CALLED 
RABBI; FOR ONE IS YOUR MASTER, EVEN CHRIST; 
AND ALL YE ARE BRETHREN” (MATT. 23:8). 

The feasts of the Lord enumerated in the twenty-third 
chapter of Leviticus, i. e., the Sabbath, Passover, Unleavened 
Bread, Pentecost, Trumpets, Day of Atonement and Taber¬ 
nacles, have a three-fold fulfilment: (1) A national applica- 


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tion to Israel; (2) and individual application to every Chris¬ 
tian; (3) a dispensational or corporate application to the 
Church Universal. Confusion arises in the Church because 
we do not note this fact carefully and thus measure our 
doctrines by the yardstick of Israel’s God-given customs. 
The Passover marked the beginning of Israel’s national in¬ 
dependence and had its dispensational spiritual fulfilment 
(corporate in Church annual celebration on Good Friday and 
Easter Sunday), when Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for 
us and rose again for our justification. For me, personally, 
the feast was fulfilled when I accepted Messiah as the Eternal 
Paschal Lamb and was made free at baptism from the bond¬ 
age of sin and Satan. 

Pentecost marked Israel’s entrance into covenant relations 
with Jehovah when the Law was given on Mt. Sinai and had 
its Christian dispensational fulfilment, when the Lloly Spirit 
was poured out on the Church at Jerusalem to guide her into 
all truth, (corporate in Church annual commemoration on 
Whit Sunday). For me, personally, the feast was fulfilled 
when a godly bishop laid his hands on my head at confirma¬ 
tion and I accepted by faith the third person in the Holy 
Trinity as my Guide and Comforter. Other Christians receive 
the Holy Spirit by simple faith without the laying on of a 
godly bishop’s hands, even as many did in the primitive 
Church. 

The three-fold fulfilment holds good in all the feasts. The 
Sabbath has its anti-typical application in Christ’s invitation, 
■“Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I 
will give you rest (of soul).” Its corporate physical ful¬ 
filment we commemorate on Sunday (the Lord’s day) the 
day of His resurrection; but the Words “Sabbath” and “rest” 
are from the same Hebrew root and have several applica¬ 
tions. The Sabbath itself and the feasts of the Lord are 
days of rest in a double sense, i. e., physical and spiritual, 
(Lev. 23:3, 7, 21, 30, 35). The Sabbath of the soul none 
can enjoy who is not at peace with God through the Blood of 
the Everlasting Covenant. Every day should be a spiritual 
Sabbath for the Christian. The physical sabbath is a question 


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of personal or aggregate choice and leaves no loophole for 
disputative judgment in Christian doctrine. Jewish Chris¬ 
tians kept the seventh-day Sabbath in the primitive Church 
and commemorated our Lord’s resurrection by partaking of 
the spiritual elements of His passion, i. e., bread and wine, on 
the first day of the week after sunset of the seventh day. 
Gentile Christians observed the physical sabbath and the 
Lord’s Supper on the same day. Israel taught of old that 
every day should be a Sabbath (spiritually) in the days of 
Messiah, repeating daily, “The Merciful! may He let us in¬ 
herit the Day that is all Sabbath and Rest unto Everlasting 
Life.” St. Paul endorses this teaching when he says, “One 
esteemeth one day above another; another esteemeth every 
day alike. Let each one be fully assured in his own mind.” 
(Rom. 14:5.) “Let no man judge you in meat, or in drink, 
or in respect to a holy day, or of the new moon, or of the 
Sabbath (Col. 2:16). A perfect Sabbath presupposes the 
three elements of spiritual “rest,” mental “rest,” and physical 
“rest.” Those who were nearest to the Lord in Israel’s wor¬ 
ship (the priests; Matt. 12:5) constantly profaned the physi¬ 
cal Sabbath by their labors in the Temple worship; and Gospel 
ministry involves the sacrifice of mental rest on the Lord’s 
day. When the Feast of Tabernacles has its anti-typical 
fulfilment on Messiah’s return in glory, Gentiles and Jews 
will be compelled to keep the feast and send national repre¬ 
sentatives to Jerusalem at its annual celebration to worship 
the Lord of Hosts (Zac. 14:16.) 

The question of circumcision, too, is very clear. It is the 
seal of an unconditional covenant made by Alminghty God 
with our Father Abraham and relates to the possession of the 
Promised Land, from the Nile to the Euphrates. (Gen. 
15:18; 17:1-14). The New Testament distinctly declares 
that “the Law which was four hundred and thirty years after 
cannot disannul (circumcision), that it should make the 
promise of no effect” (Gal. 3:17). Paul in another scripture 
declares that Jesus was “a minister of the circumcision for 
the truth of God to confirm (not destroy) the promises made 
unto the fathers; and that the Gentiles might glorify God for 


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His mercy/’ (Rom. 15:8.) All the historic churches com¬ 
memorate the circumcision of Christ on New Year’s Day; and 
the Abyssinian Christians practice circumcision as a national 
rite. It was universally practiced by Hebrew Christians in 
the primitive Church, and should not be forbidden Jewish 
Christians today. Confusion will continually arise unless we 
carefully distinguish between the various Old Testament 
Covenants. The human race is under the favor of the coven¬ 
ant Almighty God made with our Father Noah relating to 
the future safety of mankind from another universal flood, in¬ 
cluding the promise of seed time and harvest, blessings con¬ 
stantly recalled by the rainbow’s beautiful sign. All the seed 
of Abraham should rejoice and give thanks for the covenant 
that has circumcision for its seal, and relates primarily to 
the blessings of the Golden Age when Christ will reign on 
the throne of His father David and universal righteousness, 
peace and love will prevail. And every penitent son of Adam 
can enter into the felicity of the New Covenant made in the 
precious blood of Christ, who purchased for us an “eternal 
inheritance’’ (Heb. 9:14-15), when he receives in baptism the 
“outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.” 
But the supreme joy of the Christian covenant does not de¬ 
stroy the minor joy of the Abrahamic covenant, nor does 
baptism supersede circumcision; they relate to different cove¬ 
nants. The proselyte to Judaism has to submit to circum¬ 
cision and to baptism, but circumcision is not necessary either 
to Jew or Gentile to ensure eternal salvation in Christ Jesus; 
it is simply and solely one of the God-given national rites of 
Israel, which has its spiritual counterpart to the Christian 
in the circumcision of the heart (Rom. 2:28). And on the 
question of eating and drinking, too, we must exercise the 
widest tolerance and cease to judge our Hebrew Christian 
brethren. A young lady informed me years ago that she was 
told in four different homes in England that if she refused to 
eat pork it proved she was not converted. Where do the 
scriptures declare, “Believe in the Lord, Jesus Christ, and eat 
pork, and thou shalt be saved?” 

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for the unnatural and unscriptural conditions which prevail 
in Jewish missionary activities, scandal-breeding and grief- 
compelling as they often are, that I have given lonesome 
years of a widely itinerant ministry for the rescue of this 
important truth from the pit of error; AND ITS WIDE 
PROCLAMATION IS FUNDAMENTAL TO A SUCCESS¬ 
FUL NATIONAL PRESENTATION OF ‘THE GOSPEL 
OF THE CIRCUMCISION” (GAL. 2:7) TO JUDAH, TO 
PREPARE OUR PEOPLE FOR MESSIAH’S NEAR RE¬ 
TURN. For this cause I have pleaded with the Church, in 
season and out of season, to bring her moral influence to bear 
in favor of loyal Hebrew Christianity, by sternly stopping 
the selfish absorption of the culture, wealth and spiritual 
force of Hebrew Christianity into her Gentile branches, a 
course which has justified in large measure the charge of 
proselytism the Synagogue brings against her, and which 
causes the opinion to be widespread in Jewry that loyalty to 
Christ necessarily involves disloyalty to Israel. 

AND WHAT A RADIANT SPIRITUAL ILLUMINA¬ 
TION WILL SURPRISE TFIE GHETTOS, VILLADOMS 
AND PALACES OF JEWRY WHEN THE HUNDREDS 
OF MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL OF FULL OR FIALF 
JEWISH BIRTH NOW SERVING GENTILE CON¬ 
GREGATIONS, AND THE GENTILIZED JEWISH 
CHRISTIANS OF THE FIRST AND SECOND GEN¬ 
ERATION, A MYRIAD HOST WHOSE GOSPEL TESTI¬ 
MONY IS ENTIRELY WITHDRAWN FROM JEWRY, 
STAND FORTH UNASHAMED OF CHRIST BEFORE 
THEIR HEBREW BRETHREN AND UNABASHED 
BEFORE THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF THEIR 
DESCENT FROM OUR FATHER JACOB. THEN OUR 
OTHER ORTHODOX BRETHREN WHO SECRETLY 
CONFESS CHRIST BEFORE SYMPATHETIC CHRIS¬ 
TIANS BUT HAVE NOT THE COURAGE TO CONFESS 
HIM OPENLY IN JEWRY AT THE UNNECESSARY 
AND UNSCRIPTURAL SACRIFICE OF ALL NA¬ 
TIONAL AND FAMILY TIES, WILL BE STRENGTH¬ 
ENED TO A GLAD PUBLIC ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF 


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THEIR FAITH; AND THE MYRIADS OF MENTALLY 
CONVERTED JEWS WILL BE PROVIDED WITH 
RELIGIOUS CENTERS OF WELCOME, COUNSEL 
AND COMFORT WHERE THEY CAN BE SPIRITU¬ 
ALLY NURTURED INTO THE JOY AND SAFETY 
OF THE NEW BIRTH. 

AND WHAT A BLESSED EMANCIPATION FROM A 
CRUEL AND COMPLEX RACIAL ENVIRONMENT 
THIS COURSE WILL PROVE FOR THE MUCH-TO- 
BE-PITIED CHILDREN OF MIXED JEWISH AND 
GENTILE PARENTAGE, WHO OFTEN BECOME THE 
MOST PRONOUNCED ANTI-SEMITES, BECAUSE 
THEY CONSTANTLY FACE THE SCORN OF THE 
PEOPLE OF THEIR HEBREW PARENT OR ARE 
COMPELLED TO LISTEN TO THE WITTICISMS, 
CRITICISMS AND SLURS FROM THE LIPS OF THE 
PEOPLE OF THEIR GENTILE PARENT CONCERN¬ 
ING THEIR HEBREW PARENT’S RACE! AND THE 
TEMPTATION TO[ EVASION, SHAMEFACEDNESS 
AND FALSEHOOD, ON THE PART OF THE PARENTS 
THEMSELVES, WILL BE OVERCOME IN THE 
CLEAR, PURE ATMOSPHERE OF RECOGNIZED 
LOYAL HEBREW CHRISTIANITY, WITH ITS HOLY 
INSPIRATION TO FRANK SINCERITY! 

The Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, at 
its General Convention held at St. Louis, Missouri, on Octo¬ 
ber 23, 1916, answered *my memorial favorably, after long 
years of pleading, and justified my position on the question 
by declaring, without qualification after mature considera¬ 
tion, that “OUR JEWISH BRETHREN ARE FREE TO 
OBSERVE THE NATIONAL RITES AND CERE¬ 
MONIES OF ISRAEL WHEN THEY ACCEPT CHRIST, 
ACCORDING TO THE CLEAR TEACHING OF THE 
NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PRACTICE OF CHRIST 
AND THE APOSTLES” (Journal of the General Conven- 

* The Church of Christ (Disciples) confirmed this action at their 
Kansas General Convention (1917), and other Gentile Christian 
churches have done likewise, before and since. 




Christendom’s greatest wrong against judah 107 

tion, 1916, pp 86, 128, 142, 148). We must now make it 
unquestionably clear to our non-Christian Jewish brethren 
that in the proclamation of this blessed truth we do not seek 
to Gentilize them or to make them members of the Protestant 
Episcopal or any other Gentile branch of Christ’s Church; 
but that we do earnestly desire to prove to them that they are 
at liberty to remain in the cherished love of family and racial 
life when they accept Him as the Messiah; for Jews, though 
not compelled, are ever left free in Christ to exercise their 
Jewish national loyalty in Judah’s spiritual favor. 

Then, having purged ourselves of complicity with Chris¬ 
tendom’s greatest wrong against Judah, we can proclaim in 
Jewry, with good grace, the need of all the sons of Jacob 
purging themselves of complicity with Judah’s greatest wrong 
against Almighty God in the continued rejection of our own 
true Messiah, Jesus, and we can mercifully repeat to them 
the words of a song which the author addressed to the Ameri¬ 
can Jewish Congress in the War-year of 1917: 

Ho! Jewish brothers, hearken now! Bend down thine ear 
to Love’s clear call: Ye men of Israel, young and old, ye rich 
and poor, come hearken all! Yea, hearken to the voice of 
love God heralds forth through Levi’s son, whose lips pro¬ 
claim the law of Truth to make our land and people one! 

God wounds to heal and spares no sore of children smitten 
with disease, but probes each pore for pus where pain is love’s 
sole avenue to ease: Our nation now is very sick with bruises, 
wounds and festering sores, and witless friends to sweeten 
death, pour scented poison in her pores. This living death 
must Judah face till Time the Golden Age shall meet, unless 
we take the healing joy at God’s all loving mercy-seat. 

Rich brothers in these western lands the Higher Critics 
follow fast, who Israel’s scriptures, rites and hopes deny on 
Fashion’s dainty mast: Agnostic flags of every hue, they 
with their carnal rabbis fly, who Satan’s power, the future 
life, and God’s full sovereignty deny. They know not yet 
why Israel lost the land our fathers loved so well, or why their 
sons so often roam, with days on earth as days of hell,—the 
butt of scorn in every land, a by-word for their love of gold, 


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whose grief; unworldly Jews recall, profane and sacred books 
unfold. 

Why have we now no holy place? Why hath the daily 
offering ceased? Why have departed truth and grace, and all 
our miseries increased? Why in the War’s wide bloody zone 
are Jewish girls the prey of lust, while grandsires of our na¬ 
tion moan, who say, “In God we put our trust.” 

God changeth not Who bade one Jew a thousand heathen 
put to flight, Whose mighty arm nine thousand score of Israel’s 
foeman slew one night. Why flee ten thousand Jews today 
before one hostile heathen arm? Why do ten million Jewish 
prayers bring no relief from war’s alarm? Why, Judah, why 
hath God delayed for thrice five hundred years and more to 
free us from our exile woe and let us mourn for Zion’s shore? 
Why cry ye still, “Messiah, come! We daily wait Thy glad 
Advent,” and never meekly seek to know why God to earth 
Messiah sent? 

“Messiah, Come!” He cannot come to lead us back to 
Palestine, our ancient happy Jewish home, until your hearts 
to truth incline. Ah, yes! to Palstine we go when Europe’s 
bloody war shall end,—no human or demonic foe can God’s 
plain purpose backward bend. But not to peace—no! Judah, 
no! shall we to Israel’s Land return, because your hearts are 
not prepared all fleshy idols yet to burn. Ye seek the peace 
the world doth give with countless vanities of Time, and not 
God’s peace through Faith’s new birth that fits us for the 
Heavenly clime. 

Not till the anti-christ appears and nations to his standard 
flock, will Jacob’s trouble culminate, as shown on God’s 
prophetic clock: Our nation will be born again in this ap¬ 
proaching travail hour; till then no president or king can 
Judah save from Satan’s power. One, only One, hath con¬ 
quered him—the Son of God, King David’s Son, Who rose 
triumphant from the grave and everlasting victory won. On 
Him we pierced our eyes must look with mourning for our 
nation’s guilt, to make the Stone of Stumbling prove the 
Stone on which our hopes are built. Then He, Messiah, 


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Prince of Peace, will stand again on Olivet, and Armageddon’s 
bloody eve see Judah’s sun of sorrow set. 

He meekly rode the ass of old through sinful Salem’s 
festive streets; but when He comes as King of Kings from 
His white horse all sin retreats: We hail thee now, O sinless 
morn! O bliss! as King to see Him reign, where glad 
hosannahs greet His ears from joyful Jewish lips again! 

The Golden Age’s holy dawn will then illume the land and 
sea, and Love's full orb of glory shine on man’s Edenic unity. 


GEMS OF TRUTH IN CHRISTIAN FAITH 

AND PRACTICE 

(Please read again page 46) 

1 

Come, hearken, all ye Gentiles, 

And hearken, all ye Jews, 

Unto the winsome tidings, 

Unto the roval News: 

Deep in the Hills of Honor, 

Lie buried Gems of Truth, 

To crown the brow of manhood, 

To deck the heart of youth. 

2 

These are the Spirit-jewels 
Of our immortal King, 

To bless the pilgrim legion 
Who to Plis glory sing: 

“Our King is meek and lowly, 

Though lion-like for right; 

Our King is strong in justice, 

Though lamb-like in Plis might. 

3 

“His eagle-eye of goodness 

Can pierce Satanic gloom; 

His holy touch of beauty 

Can make the desert bloom; 

Sure-footed as the shepherd, 

He mounts the highest peak, 

And carries in His bosom 

The lambs He came to seek.” 


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4 

Like silly lambs we wander. 

Like foolish sheep we stray, 
Far from His guarded pasture, 

Into the stormy way; 

And when as loyal pilgrims, 

We fain would keep our rank. 
The foe is strong before us, 
Behind, and on our flank. 

5 

O kindly, gentle Shepherd! 

O strong Messiah-King! 

We haste to Thee for succor, 

And to Thy girdle cling. 

Full oft our hearts are weary, 

Our feet full oft are sore, 

While traveling to glory 

Along the pilgrim shore. 

6 

The enemies around us, 

Unseen, and in our sight, 

Are stronger than our nature, 

Are mightier in fight: 

Thou, thou alone canst shield us. 
Thou, thou, alone canst aid, 
With Thee at hand to bless us. 

No foe can make afraid! 

7 

Thou art our strong Pavilion! 

Thou art our Banner bright! 
Thou art our royal Fortress! 

Thou art our daily Light! 

Thou givest strength for weakness! 

Thou givest balm for pain! 

Thy life! Thy death! Thy triumph! 
Encourage us again. 

8 

And we go marching onward, 

Unto Thy kingdom fair, 

With Hope upon our banner, 

For joy is reigning there; 

As in the Spirit’s armor, 

Sealed with Thy Kingly name, 
We follow on to conquer 

Satanic realms of shame. 


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9 

Through coal-black rock Repentance 
We strike Confession’s soil, 
Where gleams a gem most precious 
To men of honest toil,— 

The ruby of Salvation, 

On Calvary’s Cross secure. 
Which radiates its glory 

On all whose search is pure. 

10 

Repentance flashes Goodness 
Into the carnal mind, 

And lights the lamp of Gladness 
For sin-appalled mankind. 

Until each hell-pit vision 
Wherein Remorse arose, 

Is lost beneath the splendor 
Of Sharon’s blood-red rose. 

11 . 

In free Redemption’s mountain 
God’s Kohinoor is found,— 
Regeneration holy 

Within the Spirit’s ground, 

All loveliness encircling, 

A Kingly ransom worth, 

The signet to its wearer 

Of highest, heavenly birth. 

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The Resurrection sapphire 

Cut from the mount of Death, 

Is luminously glowing 

With Life’s supernal breath: 
Most brilliantly this joy-gem 
Lights up the pilgrim path 
With its immortal triumph 
Against Satanic wrath. 

13 

The Holy Spirit’s sealing 
Until redemption’s day, 

An oft-forgotten jewel, 

Withholdeth not its ray; 

A vision pure, unclouded, 

A faith reliant, true, 

A love of God prevailing, 

Reveal its azul hue. 


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The Oneness of the Body, 

Our High Priest’s onyx-seal, 
Uniting saints in sorrow 
And everlasting weal, 

Gleams in a distant mountain, 

To true-eyed pilgrim’s clear 
Who own Messiah’s headship 
In lowly service here. 

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The crown for Overcomers, 

Enthronement with the King, 
Shows in the peaceful future 

’Neath love’s millennial wing, 
Bright swords, beat into ploughshares, 
Trail where the wolf-kings feed; 
And through the rose-tree jungle 
Glad children lions lead. 

16 

The Eucharistic jewels 

Of holy Bread and Wine, 

Until our King’s glad coming 
Thanksgiving joys enshrine, 

More blessed than the feasting 
On Israel’s paschal eve, 

When Egypt’s sad remembrance 
Triumphant songs relieve. 

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The sunniest of jewels 

To make the old world smile, 

We view a bridal party 
Adown a sacred aisle: 

Next to the King in beauty, 

God’s fairest gift to man, 

Is woman, happy mother, 

Rejoicing in His plan. 

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In faith the Christian parent 
Presents each little child 
Unto the Lord most holy, 

Most gentle, meek, and mild: 

The water to the forehead, 

Or to the form applied, 

Denotes the gem of childhood 
Is with the Christ allied. 


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Around the family altar 

God’s faithful children bow, 
And in the dear home circle 
Re-tell the story how 
The Christ-child came to scatter 
His matchless gems of love, 

To fit us for the worship 

Of our blest home above. 

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The Confirmation Chaplet, 

To seal baptismal vows, 

Christ’s holy Church, Truth’s pillar, 
For blessedness avows; 

And though unfaithful shepherds 
Oft welcome goats as sheep, 

Our King, the royal Bishop, 

Secure His flock will keep. 

21 

The Apostolic order 

Of laying on of hands, 

New Babylonish folly 

Withholds, or else withstands: 
Confusion on confusion 

Now hides the jewel rare, 
Whose gift the early fathers 
Bestowed with holy care. 

22 

Each day’s a Christian Sabbath, 
For souls redeemed from sin, 
Though six days’ honest labor 
But one of rest doth win: 

The Hebrew word for Sabbath 
Is from the verb “to rest,” 
When spirit, soul or body, 

With leisure’s crown is blest. 

23 

The Cherubim’s four faces, 

In Israel’s Temple seen, 

Adorned the Hebrew Standards 
In war and life serene: 

Still in the Heavenly worship 

They bow before God’s throne; 
And in our Christian warfare 
Each anti-type is known: 


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The “Lion,” types *Apostles,— 

The “Man,” Evangelists,— 

The “Eagle” types the Prophets— 

The “Ox” the pastors (Christ’s), 

To train true Christian soldiers 
For battles of the Cross, 

Till God’s full armor, fitting, 

Defends from wound and loss. 

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“Imagination,” “Reason,” 

“Affections” and the “Will,” 

These ministries develop 

For mercy and good will, 

Until we reach the statue 

Of perfect men in Christ 
With unity of blessing, 

Where self is sacrificed. 

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Evangelists bejeweled, 

Speed on the wings of faith 
To face dense heathen darkness, 

Exile, privation, death; 

And some in holy ardor 

Face Judah’s stony line, 

That in Christ’s crown of glory 
New gems as stars may shine. 

27 

True bishops, priests and deacons 
Work not for fame or wealth, 

But seek in holy pastures 

Salvation’s wondrous health: 

Immortals souls confided 
As jewels to their care 
They watch, as joy’s supernal 
Account they now prepare. 

28 

Our Lord’s dear undershepherds 
Who righteousness awake, 

We must esteem in honor 

For love’s sweet labor’s sake: 

Obedience is our duty 

When ministry's their prize; 

For those who own this jewel 
In rule are doubly wise. 

* Apostles minister to the will; prophets to the imagina¬ 
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Before the throne of glory 
And Majesty above, 

Our High Priest sits rejoicing 
In intercessory love; 

The sunshine of compassion 
Beams ever on His face, 

And blood-washed saints may enter 
With charm this sacred place. 

30 

Confession to the priesthood 
No word of God commands, 
Except when conscience troubled, 

Or public good, demands; 

Then heavenly absolution 

Soft balm of Gilead bears, 
More precious than the jewels 
The proudest monarch wears. 

31 

Sweet incense at the altar 
Is lawful, but unwise, 

When God’s dear children grieving 
In ruling force uprise: 

Ye strong, the weak offend not! 

Ye weak, judge not the strong! 
Lest purest gems of worship 

Are lost in hours of wrong. 

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The holy kiss, feet washing. 

Meat eaten, wine refused, 
Faith’s household, all unjudging, 
May use or leave unused: 

New color eastern customs 
Take in a western dress, 

And where the word oft killeth, 

The Spirit-jewels bless. 

33 

God’s tithe, a gem of warning, 

By many never seen, 

Demands a search of wisdom 
To find its holy sheen 
Flash from the ancient hilltops 
Across the vales of time, 

‘Mid promises and warning 
Of history sublime. 




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The Offering of Freewill, 

(The tithe is God’s alone) 

When Christ makes up His jewels, 
Will be a fair-set stone: 

ITe loves a cheerful giver, 

A million, or a mite,— 

And oft the smaller portion 
Is greater in His sight. 

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The faith that God will daily 
Supply our food and dress,— 
Contentment’s happy jewel, 

The childlike saint will bless; 

For He who feeds the birdling 
And robes the lily fair, 

Rejoices when His children 
Rust sweetly in His care. 

36 

Scenes by the oaks of Mamre, 

And Ruth in Boaz’s field, 

Illume the gem of Welcome 
To Israelites revealed: 

Then what will be our answer 

When Christ’s pure throne before, 
If we, in selfish comfort, 

On pilgrims close the door? 

37 

The pearly links for sharing 

With pilgrims laboring near 
The burden of their journey 
Reveal a spirit dear; 

But though the burden presses, 

Each saint must bear his own, 
Mid brethren who, cold-hearted, 

The claims of love disown. 

38 

The cameo of service, 

’Mid love, hate, smile, or frown, 
Will never glow in beauty 

Till pride has fallen down: 

Our King, the Prince of meekness, 
Washed His disciples’ feet, 

And ministered to sinners 
In condescension sweet. 


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The hyacinth of suffering, 

’Twixt gentleness and joy, 

In countless men of sorrow 
Doth selfishness destroy, 

Where sympathy’s clear sparkle 
Rebeautifies the road 
Of all who on life’s journey 
Support another’s load. 

40 

The ruby line dividing 

True pilgrims of the Church 
From citizens of Babel, 

Rewards a godly search: 

No marriage bond unholy, 

No courting Mammon’s smile, 

No mixing good with evil, 

God’s loyal sons defile. 

41 

The jasper gem of judging 

On love’s true balance wheel 
The saints who turn to folly, 

And would their sins conceal, 
Through martyr aid may win them 
From Satan’s guilty way, 

When mote and beams are sternly 
Cast from our eyes away. 

42 

The opal of Reproving 

Kinsman, neighbor, friend. 

Will bless when truth and honor 
On wise rebuke depend:— 

Far better than a secret, 

Deep, silent love unknown, 

Is friendship, which, when faithful, 
Fears not to walk alone. 

43 

The silent tongue is golden; 

The silver tongue is kind; 

And words in season spoken 
Are diamonds of the mind. 

As sheep before her shearers, 

Our Master (Christ) was dumb, 
Whose words were oil of healing,— 
Though lava-like to some. 




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The unknown tongue for blessing 
True worshippers alone, 

Or as a sign for sinners, 

Interpreters make known: 

This gem for centuries hidden 
The Spirit-filled have found 
In Pentecostal beauty 

Where all His gifts abound. 

45 

Good pilgrims when cheek-smitten 
Must turn the other cheek, 

In thought, word, deed displaying 
The Christ-like spirit meek. 
Cast not in zeal’s impatience 

Faith’s pearls before the swine, 
But make the serpent’s wisdom 
And dove’s mild spirit thine! 

46 

Shame’s jet-gem, Restitution 
For sins of long ago, 

In God’s clear light of justice 
Becomes like crystal snow; 
More weighty than the mill-stone 
Are debts of Christless davs 
Until the heir of glory 
Confesses or repays. 

47 

The pleasant stone Forgiveness 
’Twixt sinful man and man, 

In broken hills of sorrow 
Santanic legions span; 

But from the host infernal 

This gem of love we wrest, 

And in the pilgrim journey 
Display it on our breast. 

48 

The hard-cut gem of Patience 
Deep in a frowning hill, 

Shows all the wonder-working 
Of lapidary skill: 

The tracery immortal 

Of one great Master-mind 
In all its gentle curving 
Inviolate we find. 


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The white-rayed gem of Virtue, 
Sweet purity within, 

True pilgrims of the Kingdom 
In honor seek to win: 

Ten thousand thousand facets 
From this pure jewed shine, 

To grace the snow-white garment 
Washed in the Blood divine. 

50 

To bring each thought a captive 
To Christ as King Supreme, 

We must be as the moonstone, 

He the red diamond’s gleam: 
Then shining through the Blood-ray 
Our minds will rest serene 
Within the Kingdom’s border 

Where nothing dwells unclean. 

51 

The cat’s-eye of Temptation, 
Mysteriously near, 

With restless light confuses 

The saints who step in fear: 
Designed to test our honor, 

It oft defeat may bring, 

But blesses all who, praying, 

Walk closely with the King. 

52 

The fiery gem of Warning, 

Love’s signal to obey 
God’s holy revelation 

In Wisdom’s narrow way, 
Reveals a lake is burning, 

A pit is open wide, 

For all who in rebellion 

Our King’s mild rule defied. 

53 

Soul-temples swept and garnished 
Without the Heavenly Guest, 
Invite the wicked spirits 

Upon a soul-room quest. 

The King of Glory loveth 

To fill each sin-swept room 
And guard the home of man-soul 
Against the Prince of Gloom. 


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To meet demonic legions 

We use two gems of grace— 
Strong prayer and secret fasting, 

To succor Adam’s race: 

Thus armed brave Christians conquer 
Strong palsies of the mind, 

And in the Name of Jesus 
Men's lunacies unbind. 

55 

All flowers and grasses wither, 

Men’s bodies soon decay, 

But God’s pure world of wisdom 
Will never pass away, 

Until the Holy Scriptures 
Fulfill His last behest, 

And pilgrims song-crowned enter 
The jewelled land of rest. 

56 

The excavators’ treasures 
On monuments of old, 

And tablets of the ancients, 

God’s holy Word uphold: 

Though critics called the Higher 
Belittle Jonah’s whale, 

And cut in two Isaiah, 

And love a sceptic’s tale. 

57 

The virgin-birth of Jesus, 

Pure Incarnation gem! 

The Hebrew word Ha-almah 
Reveals to sons of Shem: 
Rebekah was Ha-almah 
Before she Isaac wed ; 

And so was Moses’ sister 
Beside his bulrush bed. 

58 

Aleph and Tau in Hebrew, 

(Alpha, Omega, Greek), 

Linked to the blessed Virgin, 

Of King-Messiah speak: 

It is the Paschal signet, 

The Lamb’s bejewelled sign, 

Deep in the Hebrew glowing 
To mark Immanuel’s line. 


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For Unity in Hebrew 

The gem word in Yacheed; 

The Trinity’s bright cluster 
In Echad lieth hid; 

And Father, Son, and Spirit, 

The holy Three in One, 

Shine in the ancient language 
Clear as the Orient sun. 

60 

Sad Judah's sons, re-gathered 
As jewels to their Land, 

Will Jesus hail, “Messiah,” 

When His dear feet shall stand 
Upon the Mount of Olives, 

Outside the City wall, 

Where in their deep contrition 

They crown Him Lord of all. 

61 

The Lost Ten Tribes of Israel 
In Anglo-Saxons found, 

A golden key to prophecy, 

The critics now confound. 

The twelve tribes reunited 

Will be God’s master-men; 

And Ephraim, His first-born, 

Is leader of the “ten.” 

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The gems of mutual freedom, 

Saint Gentile and Saint Jew, 
Mount Bigotry’s brave victors, 
Bring brightly to our view; 
And custom, love, and duty, 

These racial gems declare, 

Each saint with His own nation 
Right loyally must share. 

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Three, ten, twelve and seven, 

In wisdom multiplied, 

Give the prophetic ending 

Of years by Christ applied 
To Gentile over-lordship 
Of sad Jerusalem, 

And are the Golden Numbers 
Of loyal Sons of Shem. 


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“Three” the Trinity illumes,— 
“Seven” the Spirit’s dower, 

The “ten” millennial worship; 

“Twelve” governmental power; 
These “2520” woe-years 

From Nebuchadnezzar’s rise 
Elapse in nineteen thirty-three 
Or our time-jewel lies. 

65 

Earthquake, plague and famine, 
Beginning of earth’s woes, 

God’s dial to the nations, 

Christ’s near Advent disclose: 
The wise and foolish virgins 

Full soon will stand revealed, 
And all the shameless sinners 

The Beast for hell has sealed. 

66 

The gem of weeping showeth 
Black demons pilgripas kill, 
Whose blood cries out for vengence, 
As slowly grinds God’s mill; 
And where Satanic white men 
The saintly black men slay, 
God’s horoscope of justice 

Reveals the judgment day. 

67 

Dark legions of the devil 

We hold not in contempt; 

For he will world’s dominion 
Prophetically attempt: 

And for a time succeeding 

His godless power will grow 
Until the King of Glory 
Lays all his forces low. 

68 

The antichrist arising 
Wins universal sway, 

And in King David’s city 
Leads Israelites astray; 

But when in Judah’s temple 
His blasphemy is shown, 
Rebellion leads to terror 
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Then bound in chains of darkness 
In hell’s black pit he’s cast, 
Till earth’s millennial gladness 

(A thousand years) has past: 
Then loosed a little season 
Men flock to him again 
Till God‘s eternal judgment 
Forever ends his reign! 

70 

The emerald of Healing 

By Christ’s almighty power 
Of this poor mortal body 

In pain’s enfeebling hour, 

The Mount of Prayer discloses, 
When unfanatic zeal 
And fervency of spirit 

Through faith in God is real. 

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Christ’s turquois ray in mourning 
With its blue light of cheer, 
Revives the drooping spirit 
Beside sick bed and bier: 

“O grave, where is thy victory! 

O death, where is thy sting!” 
When pilgrims through the valley 
Pass onward with the King! 

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The dead saints in a twinkling, 
With living saints arise, 

Upon the Morn of mornings 
Into the fair blue skies: 

We hail thee, Iris-agate, 

Bright rainbow of the soul, 
When on the heart’s horizon 

Dark clouds of death unroll 

73 

’Mid fiery tribulation 
Carnelians of song 
To all the heirs of glory 

In sorrow’s hour belong: 

As anthems rich in comfort 
Of human organ-tone 
Re-echo from the Kingdom 

Where Christ is on the Throne. 


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The tranquil, gentle jewel, 

Love, constant, rosy-hued, 

Unites the shining beauties 

Of all God’s gems reviewed: 
With winningness unfailing 
It falls in rays serene, 

From all who with the Master 
On pilgrimage are seen. 

75 

How queenly is the dower 
Of Heaven’s spotless one, 

Who loves the King of glory,— 
Great David’s greater Son, 

As robed in full regalia 

The Bride with praise awaits 
The Bridegroom, in His favor, 

To ope the pearly gates! 

76 

O bright, bejewelled city, 

Intone thy harps of gold, 

Thy courts of joy make ready, 

Her nuptials to behold! 

Amid the Alleluias 

Of angels singing where 
The Lamb His bride will welcome 
With rapture in the air! 

77 

And then, O Christ, returning 

To earth with saints redeemed, 
Thy Kingdom pure establish, 

Of which the prophets dreamed! 
Where deserts bloom with roses, 

As men from warfare cease, 

And lambs with lions ramble, 

In the Golden Age of Peace! 

















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